Top 1200 Long Distance Running Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!

Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.

A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159).

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after me.

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in. As long as mine eyes can find a promise in the Bible, as long as there is a moment left me of breath or life in this world, so long will I wait or look for mercy, so long will I fight against unbelief and despair.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They see a big black shadow ahead and desperately run to it, thinking it may lead them somewhere. But after running a long way, they no longer see the shadow and fall into the slough of despond. What is that shadow? It is this ""Mr. Science.

I will keep fighting as long as I can, as long as I'm going to feel fit, as long as people would like to see me fighting, and that's it.

Everybody needs to take a little distance from things.

I've already had to wait so long." "How long?" Luce asked. "Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

Ronald Reagan memorably combined intimacy with distance.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

People always have something to say about how long is too long or not long enough to breastfeed. I think this is such a personal decision that it can only be made between each baby and his or her mommy.