Top 1200 Distance Running Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.

When a ball is struck with more velocity and at the right angle to create the most distance, you end up with a bomb.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.

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.

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time

I've had fantasies in the past of walking across America or some great distance, but it's such a commitment of time that it's stopped me.

Come here. I need to hold on to you." She felt the same way. And when there was no distance between them, it was like coming home.

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.

A woman can be physically fit enough to drive a Formula 1 car. I did the race distance in Barcelona so I have proved that it is possible.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

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

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

I can't understand how some guys get tired after one round. If you can't go the distance, why are you even in the fight?

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.

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

Toronto is my home. It's where my family is. I think I feel an obligation to be within subway distance of the people who raised me.

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.

Strangely, from a life-change standpoint, I sold the company I was running and got divorced in the same month. And so there I was, at home, and I'm not the CEO. I took a few months thinking about what I wanted to do. When the first call came in about running a company owned by Deutsche Telekom, I thought it was laughable and really not something I'd do. I took the meeting mainly because the headhunter I knew. At first I thought I was just helping her fill out the roster, but then I dug into it.

The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

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.

I mean, I knew of Jane Austen's work, and I guess I'm a fan at a distance insofar as from a literary point of view, it's beautifully written.

Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

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

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

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.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

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.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.

When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

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

You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.

I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.