Distance Quotes

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

I'm going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

Never in history has distance meant less.

Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!

I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss.

If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.

I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.