Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us… — Robert Penn Warren
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep,… — Flora Thompson
And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of… — Mark Haddon
Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely,… — Anne Michaels
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a… — Cesar Aira
I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love… — Gina Carano
I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back… — Leonard Nimoy
You can't touch music, but music can touch you — Mordecai
I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly… — John C. Maxwell
I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled. — Dan Rather
You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and… — Gary Zukav
We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or… — Joseph Stalin
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,… — Robert Grosseteste
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the… — Mohsin Hamid
I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like… — David Shields
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As… — Hunter Hayes
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great. — Gary Shteyngart
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one… — Christiaan Huygens
An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and… — Pope Francis
Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this… — Haruki Murakami
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under… — Lev S. Vygotsky
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me… — Evangelista Torricelli
Christian! thou knowest thou carriest gunpowder about thee. Desire them that carry fire to keep at a distance. It is a dangerous crisis when a… — John Flavel

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