Distances Quotes

153 Distances quotes by 133 unique authors

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep… — Dolph Lundgren
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from… — Yitzhak Shamir
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. — Ella Maillart
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. — Dalai Lama
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it… — Leonardo da Vinci
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,… — Robert Grosseteste
An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and… — Pope Francis
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely… — Charles Lindbergh
Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. — Lois Lowry
Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling… — Joan D. Chittister
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. — Johannes Kepler
There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others… — Democritus
This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me. — Elton John
Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which relates "here" and… — Arthur Eddington
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired. — Jacky Ickx
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
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
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
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
The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to… — Hal Borland
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of… — Alain de Botton
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy, — Jill Tarter
We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the… — Paul Davies
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we… — William Gibson

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