Go The Distance Quotes

I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

I know people have embraced Donald Trump. He may not have embraced them. But he has every - he should distance himself. This sort of alt-right movement is very disturbing.

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.

This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence.

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old.

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.