From A Distance Quotes

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.

The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.

I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

I have made new friends and have many new people that I know. But hey, you will always be a special part of my heart because no one has been able to replace the space you left in it.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage.

Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.

Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.

We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

I like the stroke seat. I want to be there. I want to have the race come down to a short distance and be the person to make the difference. I can't stand to be behind and I don't want to lose.

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.

I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.