Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance. — T. B. Joshua
We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and… — Jacques Ellul
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These… — Kenny Smith
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely… — Charles Lindbergh
The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however… — Robert Musil
Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. — Lois Lowry
Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly, — Robert M. Gates
From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where… — Margaret Kilgallen
I do everything by hand... Even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line and over… — Margaret Kilgallen
Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time,… — Danica Patrick
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is.… — Scott Simon
When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at… — Charlie Kaufman
Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to… — Stephen Lovegrove
The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself… — James A. Baldwin
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. — Philip Caputo
I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance. — Terry Pratchett
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through… — Edward Gorey
Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling… — Joan D. Chittister
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O… — Rabindranath Tagore
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and… — Henry David Thoreau

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