Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach… — Frans de Waal
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban… — Geoff Mulgan
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll… — Margaret Atwood
You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you… — Marya Hornbacher
The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t… — Douglas Adams
To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel… — Orson Scott Card
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you… — A A Milne
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a… — Charlotte Bronte
...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood. — Kim Edwards
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) — E E Cummings
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates… — Aimee Bender
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the… — Zora Neale Hurston
At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.… — Hanif Kureishi
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. — Robert Nathan
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your… — Maya Angelou
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of… — Steve Almond
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered… — Nelson Mandela
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of… — Edward Abbey
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A A Milne
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. — James Joyce
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends… — Rudyard Kipling
Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. — Mitch Albom

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