Top 1200 Long-Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.

Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.

One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.

Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of?fered it.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn't possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize.

Twerking - and it's a lot more than twerking - comes from a long history of music and dance in New Orleans. Twerkin' happen around the world for a long time now, so I'm very excited that it's coming into the public eye, as long as it's respected.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.

You're always super stoked when you see that your song did go the distance and people are recognizing it.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

That's one reason I think the 1,500 is so exciting. You have to be strong, have to be a distance runner. But in that last hundred you are going all out.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

I'm actually not star-struck... I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.