Distance Quotes
2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors
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For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
— Thomas Merton
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Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.
— Paul Levinson
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My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a…
— Michael Haneke
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Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the…
— Thomas French
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William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when…
— William Carey
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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can…
— William Sloane Coffin
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That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing…
— Richard Russo
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From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way,…
— Unknown Author
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You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock…
— Erich Hartmann
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I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in…
— John Trevor Godfrey
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Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers…
— Will Smith
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A good friend of mine once told me that each morning when you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week from…
— Drew Brees
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The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
— Mort Sahl
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for…
— Nick Cave
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a…
— Brennan Manning
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You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex,…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest
— Shannon Miller
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To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a…
— Joseph Glanvill
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We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the…
— Jim Lovell
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Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off.…
— James M. Cain
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Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the…
— Lewis Thomas
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At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.
— George Washington
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To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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