Top 1200 Long-Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

To me, I think when women who have children are fighting overseas, that's long distance. And that's very challenging. I really honor those families that do that.

I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.

When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!

You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.

My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.

I have a song on my album called 'Distance' which I wrote in the pandemic all about not being to see my partner and having a sense of physical - and social - distance.

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.

You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

My dad was a taxi driver - he's a long distance lorry driver now - and he has an amazing work ethic.

For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

Before I went to Liverpool, I was a striker and then sometimes a No. 8 or No. 10, and my thing was shooting, finishing, and long-distance shots.

As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

The second guy I met on the Internet was Tom, who I dated for around 6 months, which is by far the longest relationship I've ever had as an adult. We long distance dated mostly, chatting everyday for a long time on FB chat and Skype. It's hard to imagine a more genuinely caring and kind individual. I owe a lot to him.

I don't believe you can make an honest film about another person in all their complexities from a place of distance. You can make a journalistic report, you can judge someone from a distance, but you can't really get to know them.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.

But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.

The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.

In my last fight I couldn't explode as much. Sometimes I had a chance to throw the guy, to close the distance, and I missed that distance because of my hips.

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.

Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks

I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

I'm a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running.

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.