Top 1200 Long Distance Running Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In 1942, the Germans were running out of fuel. They were advancing so fast across the grasslands, the hot grasslands of south Russia, and the Russians were running out of tanks. And so both of them turned to cavalry, and there were great cavalry battles on the grasslands.

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

Health care is in as bad a shape as it has ever been after eight years of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party running it and running the US economy. It's an absolute disaster. Other areas of the economy are a disaster. Economic growth? There isn't any. It's 1% per quarter, a 4% growth rate per year if we're lucky. There is no expansion. There is no productivity increase.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.

For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-blue attitude that the AAU spouts. If that's important to some people, fine, more power to 'em. But, damn it, I wish they'd leave me alone to do what I want to do - run against the best.

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart's desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities. I suppose you could say my real weakness is a kind of long-sightedness: usually it is only at a distance, and much too late, that I can see the pattern.

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

It is the distance between us that creates language.

I'm a visionary drummer and I have been for a long, long, long time.

'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

I think sometimes you need distance to reflect.

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse?

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

I tend to gravitate towards the great rock-and-roll front men, the guys that are very "bare bones." I like Bono, I like Chris Martin(Coldplay) and I like the running around. I think they are amazing at it, but I think that there is something great about a guy that can captivate a room, and very little movement and running everywhere.

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

Never in history has distance meant less.

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption-and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities.

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

I wanted to play running back, but they would never put me at running back. I started loving receiver and as I kept growing older, we kept throwing the ball more and I kept liking it more and more. It's something I've played all my life. It's something I've gotten better at each year.

I'm at my best when there's distance between me and a man.

Sometimes I feel like distance helps observation.

You can’t go the distance with too much resistance

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

I tried to keep my distance, but my world doesn't work without you in it.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.