Distance Quotes

Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

Alan Huffman
- Long
- Distance
In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

David Wallace Crowder

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

Tom Hayden
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
- Life
- Men
- Freedom
And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Donna Leon
- City
- Sun
- Gold
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Jonathan Raban
- Reality
- Distance
- Scary
Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally.

Geert Hofstede
I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.

Carrie Jones
- Distance
- Runner
- Sprinter