Top 1200 Long Distance Relation Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

Long week. Long month. Long life.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

I think we all cheer for couples who just seem right together and go the distance.

There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.

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

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

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

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy, not even talking.... Talking is an escape, an escape from love. When two lovers are talking that simply shows they are avoiding the intimacy. Words in-between give distance - with no words distance disappears, death appears. In silence there is death just lurking around - a beautiful phenomenon. But people are so afraid that they go on talking whether it is needed or not. They go on talking about anything, everything - but they cannot keep silent.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

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

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Whatever happens in the lower body is in direct relation to what is happening in the upper body, as far as bowling is concerned.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

Everybody in middle-distance running knows each other, and we all know what we are capable of.

Though personally I'm not a fan of celebrating with fireworks, it is beautiful to watch the sight from a distance.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.

When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation to the whole.

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

Representation goes a long, long, long way.

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.