From A Distance Quotes

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?

If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.

It is the distance between us that creates language.

Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

Do we need distance to get close?

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.