Distance Quotes

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

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

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

He who manages the distance, manages the damage.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it’s like you weren’t hurt.

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.