Go The Distance Quotes

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

I'm reverent from a distance.

Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.

One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

I plan on getting out there and mixing with the crowd. I want to show everyone what happens in Times Square not from a distance, but from right there in the crowd.

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.

You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's what this means to me.

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

I've been a long-distance father.