Distance Quotes

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

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.

Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

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

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

The distance between who i am and who i want to be is separated only by my actions and words.

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.

It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.