Top 1200 Distance Running Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

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.

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

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

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

This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.

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

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.

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.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

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

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

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

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

I was running around with two guns on my waist like I was Larry Fishburne or something. I wasn't making no money, I was just running around with two guns like Larry Fishburne.

One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of?fered it.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

That's one reason I think the 1,500 is so exciting. You have to be strong, have to be a distance runner. But in that last hundred you are going all out.

Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly.

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

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

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.

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Derek Brunson is aggressive, knows how to close the distance, but couldn't do anything against Anderson.

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

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

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

You're always super stoked when you see that your song did go the distance and people are recognizing it.

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

If you look at me, basically my whole entire life I've been around water. So when you look at a stat like, "If you leave the faucet running for two minutes while you brush your teeth you waste four gallons of water," to me that's mind-blowing. There are so many people that don't even have access to clean water, and people leave their faucets running. For me it was something that fit with things that I believe in.

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.