Top 1200 Long-Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

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

I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

Derek Brunson is aggressive, knows how to close the distance, but couldn't do anything against Anderson.

Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

As soon as you know that someone is running for office, it puts a distance between you and that person.

How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.