Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do… — Bill Gates
I can still enjoy sex at 74 - I live at 75, so it's no distance. — Bob Monkhouse
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth:… — Edmond Halley
Distance is a great promoter of admiration — Denis Diderot
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but… — Michel de Montaigne
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The… — Thomas McGuane
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external… — Nikola Tesla
Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go. — Frank Ocean
Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance — Confucius
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their… — John Desmond Bernal
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance. — Thomas More
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. — Steve Prefontaine
You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner — Alberto Salazar
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions.… — Arthur Lydiard
I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the… — Unknown Author
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold… — Albert Camus
I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache… — Corey Stoll
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
I'm reverent from a distance. — Janet Morris
Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. — Samuel Johnson
I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel… — Bobbie Ann Mason
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first… — Chogyam Trungpa
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. — Peter Drucker

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