Quotes About Distance Traveled

#1. She was both more assured and quieter, deeper. It was as if the distance she had traveled had ironed out some of her foolish impulsiveness, her flippancy.

Amanda Coplin

#2. Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance.

Alexander Pope

#3. In fifteen years, Sachs traveled from one end of himself to the other, and by the time he came to that last place, I doubt he even knew who he was anymore. So much distance had been covered by then, it wouldn't have been possible for him to remember where he had begun.

Paul Auster

#4. An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

John Green

#7. Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

Andrew Davidson

#8. Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled ...

Mavis Gallant

#9. I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.

Dionne Warwick

#10. The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

Jan De Bont

#11. Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

Peter Singer

#12. Surely she had never traveled a greater emotional distance

Margot Lee Shetterly

#13. It took 350 years, since the invention of the telescope, to enter the space age, but it has taken only fifteen years since the introduction of the MRI and advanced brain scans to actively connect the brain to the outside world.

Anonymous

#14. He who says he can't isn't willing

Caryn

#15. [A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

Ernest Kurtz

#16. 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.

Dan Rather

#17. Balancing is hard. I've lost roles that I really wanted because I had set up a tour. I cancelled tours to do roles before. But I have to find the time to make that up to my audience. I made a commitment to them.

Jill Scott

#18. His errors and failures have not traveled the same distance as his successes.

Rick Bass

#19. I had to let someone know who I was: not merely Simon's assistant, his chronicler, his poor scribbling friend, but the great love of a great life. That I may have lived in his shadow, but I was always by his side. That I was as needful to him as air.

K.J. Charles

#20. I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

Vanilla Ice

#21. Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled, just as the dead can never be counted.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

Bill Hybels

#23. I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

Usher

#24. Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#25. The general laws of migration hold that the greater the obstacles and the farther the distance traveled, the more ambitious the migrants.

Isabel Wilkerson

#26. I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

Roberto Cavalli

#27. Some trips are more than distance traveled in miles.

Lucy Knisley

#28. To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

Jean Vanier

#29. The original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points.

George R. Stewart

#30. Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

Christian Lous Lange

#31. Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Steve Prefontaine

#32. 1 tatty old man in jeans - what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.

Jo Walton

#33. Sanctification is more about the direction than the distance we have traveled.

Edward T. Welch

#34. The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

Sheila Bender