Top 1200 Long-Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

I've had fantasies in the past of walking across America or some great distance, but it's such a commitment of time that it's stopped me.

The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

I mean, I knew of Jane Austen's work, and I guess I'm a fan at a distance insofar as from a literary point of view, it's beautifully written.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

A woman can be physically fit enough to drive a Formula 1 car. I did the race distance in Barcelona so I have proved that it is possible.

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used to defining ourselves. That's the way society works within these binaries and it's taken me a long time to realize that I exist somewhere in between and I'm still not sure where that is yet.

Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the responsibility as consumers and as investors to avoid them like the plague. If we do, they won't last very long. Doing what's right is the only possible formula for long-term - I emphasize long term - business success.

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

I do feel grateful, and I love what I'm doing, and I'm happy, and I'm living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.

Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.

Come here. I need to hold on to you." She felt the same way. And when there was no distance between them, it was like coming home.

Give yourself a healthy bit of distance between your fame and reality because they are two different things.

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.

Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.

I can't understand how some guys get tired after one round. If you can't go the distance, why are you even in the fight?

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.