Distance Quotes

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

I am best viewed from a distance.

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

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

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.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?