Distance Quotes

If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

I am waiting for the day when I will see you again and hold your soft hands, touch your sweet lips and hug you tight so that you will never leave me again.

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is

Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.

The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

In the distance someone is singing.

I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.