Top 1200 Long-Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

When a ball is struck with more velocity and at the right angle to create the most distance, you end up with a bomb.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Conor McGregor knows how to control distance well, but Anderson does it like nobody else.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

Toronto is my home. It's where my family is. I think I feel an obligation to be within subway distance of the people who raised me.

You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

Want a strong, solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

He cleared his throat, "Zoe, i think you said you love me." "I did say it. I do love you with all my heart." "I see." There was a long pause, then he said, "For how long has this been going on?" "I don't know," she said, "Sometimes i think it started a long, long time ago." "You might have mentioned it." "I didn't want to encourage it," she said, "I thought it was a bad idea.

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in George W. Bush.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.

I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.

I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.' Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you're going to get some surgery.

Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

I think I showed I'm resilient, I'm strong, I can go the distance against a bigger man and still box effectively.

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.

I had zero exposure to creative in WCW up until 1993, 1994. Even then, I was at a distance.

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.