Top 1200 Shortest Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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