Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came… — Louise Penny
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at… — Jacques Barzun
The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled… — Jeff Galloway
The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is — Chase Jarvis
Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed… — Mark Haddon
It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The… — Samuel Johnson
The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day.… — Sheila Bender
I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an… — Percy Williams Bridgman
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming… — Rajneesh
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. — Antonio Porchia
The problem is maddening. The thing you seek is so close, you feel you could reach out and touch it. You feel it is your… — Dave Sim
But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it. — Pico Iyer
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to… — Seth Godin
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large… — Confucius
A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. You're on your toes trying to push it. Suddenly you… — Sean Astin
Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand… — Aimee Carter
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God — Ivan Illich
My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place. — Janet Jackson
I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. — Victoria Moran
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan
When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You… — Brian Tracy
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been… — Jonah Lehrer
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere… — Henry David Thoreau
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies… — Bruce Lee
Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is… — Bruce Lee

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