Top 1200 Long Distance Running Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

I can still enjoy sex at 74 - I live at 75, so it's no distance.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.

Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.

Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.

I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.

We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.

Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some individual. It was Commodore Vanderbilt's enterprise in switching first from running a ferryboat to running other ships, and then, when he was well along in years, his enterprise in switching into railroading, that created what was to become one of the most notable fortunes in the history of the world.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Some people feel 'transformed' from the first day they begin running; others feel that it's just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.

Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward my wife. "Dead." My eyes drift toward the sky and lose their focus. "Want it...to hurt. But...doesn't." Julie looks at me like she's waiting for more, and I wonder if I've expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards.