Distance Quotes

• The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

  

  Thomas More
  • Way
  • Heaven
  • Length

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Distance
  • Complicated
  • Pondering

• Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

  

  Dava Sobel
  • Individual
  • Authority
  • Losing

• I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Moments
  • Patient
  • Volunteer

• For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Ambition
  • Something
  • Conversation

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

  

  Nick Burd
  • Distance
  • Far
  • Meaningless

• 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

• There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Simple
  • Phenomenon
  • Unbelievable

• David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

  

  David Bowie
  • Song
  • Generosity
  • Irony

• The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

  

  Confucius
  • Way
  • Space
  • Traveling

• The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Space
  • Distance
  • Stage

• I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Perspective
  • Proportion
  • Sense Of Humor

• It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • World
  • Answer
  • Street

• Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

  

  Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Love
  • History
  • Write

• 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

• Do we need distance to get close?

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Distance
  • Close

• My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Ideas
  • Distance
  • Operations

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

  

  Steven Wright
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Distance

• Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Work
  • Distance

• With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.

  

  William Friedkin
  • People
  • Film
  • Mystery

• I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Internet
  • Distance
  • Lead

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