Top 1200 Long-Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

The distance between who i am and who i want to be is separated only by my actions and words.

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

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 am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

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

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

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

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

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

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

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

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

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

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.

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

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

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

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

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

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

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance.

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

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

Long week. Long month. Long life.

Representation goes a long, long, long way.

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

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.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.

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

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

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.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

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

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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

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

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

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

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

I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it.

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.

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.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

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

I've never tried to artificially create distance between myself and the players.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

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

Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.

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