Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity… — Francois Hollande
To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance. — Anagarika Govinda
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. — Charles Issawi
For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C… — Louis Kronenberger
Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance. — Martin E. Marty
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way.… — Hunter S. Thompson
The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with… — Dan John
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our bodies carry ancient… — Sue Thoele
As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal,… — Joseph John Thomson
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a… — Susanna Kaysen
Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great… — Richard J. Foster
Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the… — Isaac Newton
"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able… — Lewis Carroll
The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be… — Alex Prager
The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat;… — Pipilotti Rist
If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana. — William J. Clinton
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on… — Hans Arp
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And… — Joseph Addison

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