Distance Between Quotes

#1. Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the slightest provocation we will put distance between ourselves and those we cannot or do not want to understand

Susan Nathan

#2. And if one day there's distance
Between your hand and mine,
When our hands join once again,
My heart and soul will shine.

Glyncora Murphy

#3. And suddenly I felt completely strange, like the distance between us was much much greater than what I could see from where I was standing. Like that line, always so clear to me, had somehow shifted, or never even been where I'd thought it was at all.

Sarah Dessen

#4. The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.

Clare Morgan

#5. The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

Robert Olen Butler

#6. The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God, is to lose a sense of the very thing that distinguishes God as God.

A.J. Conyers

#7. Distance: the space between my
heart & my body.

The night called and said, 'find
your way out now', and I'm trying.

I'm still trying.

Darshana Suresh

#8. I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action.

Majid Kazmi

#9. My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.

George Carlin

#10. Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Brian W. Aldiss

#11. Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

Bill Vaughan

#12. My mom always wanted a bunch of kids, but they stopped after me. I never understood why."
His voice was wistful. Haven closed the distance between them and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Maybe they realized they created perfection when they made you and didnt need anymore.

J.M. Darhower

#13. I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman's legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It's a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. The distance between their beds felt chilly and infinite and a heartbeat from everything he'd ever wanted. Adrenaline

Annabeth Albert

#15. Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

Gretel Ehrlich

#16. The distance between what bothers you and what doesn't is patience.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled- a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.

Rabindranath Tagore

#18. You're a terrible liar, boy," Rand called after us.
"Is he right?" I asked quietly, once we'd put some distance between the guest cabin and us.
"That I'm a terrible liar? No. I'm a fantastic liar.

Richelle Mead

#19. The distance between the haves and the have-nots is a train ride.

Adriana Trigiani

#20. Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.

Nalini Singh

#21. Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.

Nadia Hashimi

#22. Any time you try to collapse the distance between your delusions about the past and what really happened, there is suffering involved."
p. xx

Mary Karr

#23. A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#24. That pistol I gave you is a piece of crap. You can't hit anything with it, not at that distance."
Staring at her with tears in his blinking eyes, he says, "I did."
Conversation between Alis K and Willy
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

#25. Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.

Mark W. Boyer

#26. The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.

Sheila Ostrander

#27. The time we waste is equal to the distance between ourselves and the iron rod.

Kimberly Jo Smith

#28. I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.

Marie Lu

#29. Just as no significant work of art can be created without the element of irrationality that is in fact the artist's talent." p.179
"He wondered if there was a greater distance than the one between two people in the same bed pretending to sleep." p.213

Henning Mankell

#30. For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.

Michael A. Arnzen

#31. Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

Kasie West

#32. I build boxes
and place them at your feet,
to measure the distance
between dreams and reality.

Jessica Kristie

#33. I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. I was standing right beside her, but the distance between us had split into the kind of canyon I couldn't jump across.

Alexandra Bracken

#34. The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

#35. I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

Conrad Burns

#36. When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

Lance Henriksen

#37. It is the distance between us that creates language.

Robin Skelton

#38. We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

Andy Rooney

#39. It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

William Faulkner

#40. A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

Charles Issawi

#41. Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Gary Ryan Blair

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

Gary Shteyngart

#43. Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask.

"Maybe that's why we dislike them," she says. "The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.

Nicola Yoon

#44. When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us.

David Levithan

#45. He liked to talk about the anatomy of racecars, motorcycles, hunting rifles, how things work, and she liked to listen. It was a mark of the distance between them that she listened so eagerly, the perennial miles, the weeks and months

Don DeLillo

#46. Stars believe there is no distance between them and me.

Suzanne Tyrpak

#47. The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Rabindranath Tagore

#48. ...but a sense of strangeness will not leave me. I cannot feel at home among these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogony piano, but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.

Erich Maria Remarque

#49. 'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.

Jim Rohn

#50. To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible.

John D. Lukacs

#51. That face." He finally came around the table, closing the distance between us, and I knew, I just knew he was going to frame my face in his hands, as he always had. "How can I live without this face?" Chapter Twenty-Two

Ann Aguirre

#52. This thought, this truth, it highlighted the distance between us. We lived in different timeframes. A reminder that, even right now, we didn't share the same moments. We could never truly be together.

P.I. Alltraine

#53. Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

Veronica Roth

#54. The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

Elena Ferrante

#55. The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

James Howard Kunstler

#56. The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

Dan Kieran

#57. There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Og Mandino

#58. Take your hate out on me, show me how much you hate me. Show me how much I hurt you." "What? You're crazy," she squeaked, backing away from me. "And I'll show you how much I've always wanted you, how fuckin' sorry I am. I'll make you forget everything," I said, closing the distance between us again.

Ellie R. Hunter

#59. I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!

Kim Harrison

#60. To science." Ben chuckled and closed the distance between them, brushing his lips across Maddox's for the first time. As per his usual, Maddox was several days past needing a shave, and his cheek was bristly against Ben's hand and his upper lip tickled Ben's. Maddox

Annabeth Albert

#61. We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

Jacques Ellul

#62. Because of the great distance between us and his heavenly glory, he himself came down to us through the Word. This

John Calvin

#63. You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

Madame De Stael

#64. Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Frederick Marryat

#65. What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#66. Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

Karen Barber

#67. When you're different, on the down side, you learn to live from one scarce rich moment to the next, no matter the distance between.

Chris Crutcher

#68. Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

Paul Wellstone

#69. Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers.

Marty Rubin

#70. The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.

Artie Shaw

#71. You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Anthony De Mello

#72. It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Colleen Hoover

#73. physical distance between you is not at all important, because our energy is always leading us towards them.

Andrew M. Parsons

#74. It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

Alice Hoffman

#75. A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.

Paul Smith

#76. The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced between competing attractors, one at zero and the other, in effect, ringing the set at a distance of infinity.

James Gleick

#77. Separation isn't time or distance
it's the bridge between us
finer than silk thread sharper than swords

Nazim Hikmet

#78. There is no distance so minute and yet so great as the distance between God and man. (The Lonesome God)

Jonathan R. Walton

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

Jacques Delors

#80. They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

Cassandra Clare

#81. [T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.

Pitigrilli

#82. English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

Rachel Johnson

#83. Ubicumque ex aequo ad caelum erigitur acies, paribus intervallis omnia divina ab omnibus humanis distant - From whatever point on the earth's surface you look up to heaven the same distance lies between the realms of gods and men

Seneca.

#84. Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

Ann Aguirre

#85. It's a grace feather. See how its colors shift from green to blue, like the sea? It means remembrance. It shows that no distance, no amount of water between two people, will make them forget. Someone gave it to say that they remembered you.

Kirsty Logan

#86. There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]

Dorothy Parker

#87. I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity ...

Napoleon Bonaparte

#88. Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

Maggie Stiefvater

#89. I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

Mark Ruffalo

#90. In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Will Durant

#91. The world seemed somehow different when one was lying down. Darker, more dangerous ... And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance between them, he became her entire world.

Julia Quinn

#92. The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

Rene Girard

#93. The anger and shame of these women I hold in one hand, and the basin in the other. The distance between the two, the length I pace and try to measure, is the size of an abortion.

Sallie Tisdale

#94. Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.

Douglas Pagels

#95. Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Donald Rumsfeld

#96. I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

Robert Bly

#97. The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.

Jeff Minter

#98. It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest ... The explanation is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

Robert M. Pirsig

#99. Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

Leo Buscaglia

#100. Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

Charles Simic