Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation… — Robert M. Pirsig
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than… — H. H. Asquith
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to… — Larry Lucchino
Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle… — Chogyam Trungpa
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel,… — John Wesley Powell
Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out. — Alex Ferguson
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I… — Andy Goldsworthy
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse. — Lynn Swann
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all… — Sigurd F. Olson
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what… — Hal Higdon
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. — Jean de La Fontaine
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before… — Leonard Cohen
We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all… — Pope Benedict XVI
Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance. — Oliver Goldsmith
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. — Howard G. Hendricks
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer… — William Irwin Thompson
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility… — Unknown Author
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all… — Bill Bryson
I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance… — Nelson Mandela
Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of… — Charles Lindbergh
In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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