Distance Quotes
2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors
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Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source…
— Dean Koontz
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I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward…
— Isaac Marion
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He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a…
— Cassandra Clare
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So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a…
— John Green
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Iain didn't go back to sleep for a long while. He continued to think about all the logical reasons he would never allow himself to…
— Julie Garwood
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Can you love someone you don't trust?" "Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back.…
— Daniel Abraham
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Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason asked. No answer.…
— Brandon Mull
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Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from…
— Haruki Murakami
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Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
— John Green
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When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever…
— Dan Wells
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... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just…
— Zadie Smith
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is…
— Pam Brown
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A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in…
— S.J. Watson
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He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets…
— Veronica Roth
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How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for…
— Ruskin Bond
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It's never long distance between friends.
— Sarah Dessen
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Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you
— W S Merwin
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It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
— Lauren Oliver
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Distance makes everything beautiful" - Virginia Dare
— Michael Scott
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Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness…
— Lois Lowry
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