Distance Quotes
2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors
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When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights…
— Frank Delaney
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I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a…
— Janet Evanovich
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
— Albert Einstein
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of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood;…
— Paulo Coelho
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I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
— Vita Sackville-West
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All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far…
— Virginia Woolf
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing…
— Fernando Pessoa
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A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and…
— Jonathan Edwards
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Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure…
— James M. Barrie
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She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
— Terry Pratchett
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For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and…
— Lois Lowry
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The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
— Nicholas Sparks
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There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and…
— Nick Hornby
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Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to…
— Christopher McDougall
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
— Antonio Porchia
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The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or…
— Stephenie Meyer
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And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the…
— Jeaniene Frost
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In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred…
— Stephen Hawking
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the…
— J D Salinger
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I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do…
— Sylvia Plath
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There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my…
— Sarah Dessen
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
— Charles M. Schulz
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