Distance Quotes

• Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Sky
  • Grandmother
  • Fallen

• The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Picture
  • Distance

• We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Humans
  • Failing
  • Deals

• But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Feel
  • Distance

• We don't have anything in common. We just complement each other. You don't have to do everything together; you need some distance between you. But there's no ideal distance and there are only two possibilities: either you reduce the distance or you enlarge it. And because we want to reduce the distance, we're going to get married. Some time or another.

  

  Eva Heller
  • Possibilities
  • Get Married
  • Complement

• Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Long
  • Distance

• The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Hand
  • Distance
  • Word

• Everybody needs to take a little distance from things.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Things
  • Needs
  • Distance

• 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 solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Earth
  • Form
  • Courses

• The world glitters in the distance... but the closer I get the more I see that everyone is fragile and clumsy... and trying their hardest.

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Distance
  • Fragile
  • Glitters

• The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Distance
  • Nothing
  • Motive

• Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Children
  • Running
  • Sometimes

• I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Life
  • Failure
  • Distance

• The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Ideas

• How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?

  

  Steve Martin
  • Missing
  • Distance
  • Gone

• At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

  

  Heather O'Reilly
  • Running
  • Player
  • Soccer

• Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

  

  Steven Wright
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Distance

• 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 often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Missing

• We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Long
  • Win
  • Middle

• To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

  

  Anagarika Govinda
  • Distance
  • Mountain
  • Greatness

• It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Greatness
  • Grain
  • Millennia

• Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

  

  Henry Knox
  • Men
  • Government
  • Taxes

• Distance is meaningless. No one's that far away unless they choose to be.

  

  Nick Burd
  • Distance
  • Far
  • Meaningless

• People are trading distance for dollars.

  

  Ray Brown
  • Distance
  • Dollars
  • Trading

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