Quotes About Keeping The Distance

#1. I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

Luis Miguel

#2. Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.

Zach Johnson

#3. He shook his head, his eyes so full of sadness that it made her chest ache. You want me when you need me, but the rest of the time I'm not worthy. I doona blame you. I'm not worthy. Not yet anyway. You've been alone for so long that you've gotten used to keeping everyone at a distance, and I'm

Donna Grant

#4. She was afraid to love me," Nancy said. "I never realized it. By keeping her distance, she thought she could protect me. If she didn't love me, maybe I would escape notice. I would survive.

Emilie Richards

#5. Jackson's presence in New York had everything to do with the other Carrington sister.

He'd been keeping his distance. He'd had to. But today he didn't want to. He wanted to see her. Needed to see her.

He needed Mollie.

Lauren Layne

#6. Isn't he gorgeous? With those rolls, the wet-sounding grunts, bulbous wiggly tail, and smashed face - not to mention the fart the dog let out once he situated himself - he was gorgeous in a way that only a parent could appreciate.

Jeaniene Frost

#7. And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance

Brennan Manning

#8. I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

W. Eugene Smith

#9. You understood that proof of your friendship lay in keeping your distance, in accepting what was told you, in turning and walking away when the door was shut in your face instead of trying to force it open again.

Hanya Yanagihara

#10. We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#11. I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Jodi Picoult

#12. Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Toni Morrison

#13. The only ones who have been silenced forever are the dead. The rest, even in the distance, still remain sons of the fatherland, keeping its memory alive and ennobling our language with their words.

Maria Duenas

#14. Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders.

Sergei Lavrov

#16. When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.

Dante Alighieri

#17. When you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen.

Liane Moriarty

#18. I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

Simone Elkeles

#19. My ex send late night text cause she don't know to let go

Drake

#20. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others

Phil Harding

#21. Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

John Waters

#22. I find I serve the world best by keeping my distance and freedom.

Thomas Merton

#23. When the automobile was made affordable to the masses, people moved further away from work and further away from stores. While transportation speed increased, transportation distance increased proportionally, keeping transportation time constant.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#24. Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

Lana Del Rey

#25. Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

Frederic Tcheng

#26. There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

Kevin Costner

#27. Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them ... mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.

Javier Marias

#28. A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance.

Pete Dexter

#29. The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self.

Robert M. Pirsig

#30. I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Mary Gardiner Brainard

#31. When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Ann Beattie

#32. Be courageous, but humble,
passionate, but simple,
have beliefs, but be flexible.

Debasish Mridha

#33. if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#34. Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.

Carla Buckley

#35. Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#36. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen

Peter Slevin