Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from… — Richard P. Feynman
I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the… — Kristin Harmel
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and… — Michel de Montaigne
Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy. — Judith Viorst
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. — Johannes Kepler
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. — Adam Duritz
The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of… — Confucius
Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are… — Jonathan Swift
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. — John Donne
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive. — Joseph Epstein
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. — Malcolm De Chazal
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an… — Max Beerbohm
These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or… — Herodotus
At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process… — Diana Trilling
There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in… — Mary Ellen Mark
In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short. — Shirley Temple
Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life. — Gu Cheng
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. — Jonathan Raban
As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance. — Bob Dylan
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who… — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have… — Frederick Lenz

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