Distance Quotes

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

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

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

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

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

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

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.