Distance Quotes

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

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

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

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

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

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.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

People are trading distance for dollars.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.