Top 100 Quotes About The Distance
#1. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce.
Michael Pollan
#2. At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible . Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.
Joseph Goebbels
#3. I want to feel again," Lucas whispered, taking
the last few steps that bridged the distance between
them. "You make me feel something, and I need to
feel again." His long arms encircled her waist. -Lucas Bennett
Nikki Lynn Barrett
#4. Sometimes there is no budging the distance between what we imagine we are prepared for and what we must discover on our own.
Inara Verzemnieks
#5. I'll be there someday, I can go the distance.
I will find my way, if I can be strong.
I know every mile, will be worth my while,
When I go the distance, I'll be right where I belong. - Hercules
Walt Disney Company
#6. Technically, somenumber sets the radius - the distance between the middle of the circle and the edge. A circle is always twice as wide as its radius. (You don't need to remember any of this until you're in high school.)
Richard Wentk
#7. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.
Paulo Coelho
#8. The more honest I try to be, the more the right words recede into the distance.
Haruki Murakami
#9. Love might come suddenly, unsought, from a place not looked for, and stay for a while before departing into the distance, to a place where it cannot be reached.
Edward Rutherfurd
#10. Whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
Agnes Repplier
#11. I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman ... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
L.A. Reid
#12. The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.
Larry Brown
#13. The distance between you and me disappears with us.
J.R. Rim
#14. He who manages the distance, manages the damage.
Rener Gracie
#15. During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun
setting in the distance, it was
somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just
kept moving toward that
horizon.
Sarah Dessen
#16. I don't know about other people's cameras. Mine is a thing I had cobbled up, it holds together with tape and is always losing parts. All I need to set is the distance and that other thing - what do you call that other thing?
Mario Giacomelli
#17. You can feel the distance. It carries a weight that's heavier than anything.
Katie Kacvinsky
#18. All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.
Vasily Rozanov
#19. The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical
Arthur Koestler
#20. I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.
Dee Dee Ramone
#21. My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.
Lauren Oliver
#22. It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
Pliny The Elder
#23. Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures.
Debasish Mridha
#24. I love you so much," I said, closing the distance between us and wrapping myself around him. "No matter what happens, no matter how this war turns out - I love you, forever and always.
Aimee Carter
#25. Whenever he began to see me as something more than a liability or a weapon,
whenever we spoke to each other without the barrier of rank and history between us, he backed away, more often than not insulting me to force the distance. Merit - Chicagoland Vampires
Chloe Neill
#26. They all watched Devin run up to meet the other girls. For a moment Kate felt indescribably sad, because she couldn't go with Devin back to her childhood. She could only stand here as an adult as the distance became greater and greater until, finally, there was an ocean between them.
Sarah Addison Allen
#27. In the distance, a building explodes in flame. She has over a hundred men working this district, letting everyone feel the pain of real enforcement. Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. People have forgotten this.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#28. In the distance, they begin shutting down the rides and turning off lights. There's something beautiful and eerie about a darkened, unmoving Ferris wheel.
Becky Albertalli
#29. To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
Alexis Carrel
#30. I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.
Tracy K. Smith
#31. Gifford Ulrich didn't know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn't sleep in alleys.
Dan Groat
#32. I find that I was wrong in suggesting that a Master of the Temple had a right to enter the temple of a Magus or an Ipsissimus. On the contrary, the rule that holds below, holds also above. The higher you go, the greater is the distance from one grade to another.
Aleister Crowley
#33. The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
Lawrence Kasdan
#34. The distance of your love is the distance of your life. Love is exactly as strong as life.
Joseph Campbell
#35. We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.
Heidi Jon Schmidt
#36. The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must travel before we look up casually from a cornfield and see it.
Haven Kimmel
#37. Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
Joe Laurie Jr.
#38. The water stretched out into the distance until it held hands with the sky.
Katie Kacvinsky
#40. I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#41. In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
Shirley Temple
#42. The distance between us grows with each passing minute. Will he take my arm again, or will I have to take his?
Stephanie Perkins
#43. The San Francisco skyline sparkles in the distance, the bay spread out before it like a shark-infested welcome mat.
T.T. Monday
#44. It's time to serve my Master. He says, pointing at some steamy thing in the distance. If his master is some type of steam, all I gotta do is get a vacuum and sweep his ass up.
Nandanie Phalgoo
#45. The toughest moment ever in life is the distance between struggle and success.
M.F. Moonzajer
#46. Beauty is a spark which flares up when two ages meet across the distance of time, ... beauty is a clean sweep of chronology, a rebellion against time.
Milan Kundera
#47. More alone than she had ever been, separated from Heathcliff who had left her at Penistone Crag, Cathy had been wandering lost on the moor until at last she saw a light winking in the distance.
N J Dorrian
#48. I have no idea how to go about bridging the distance between us- I just keep telling myself, maybe foolishly, that when he's ready, he'll talk to me again.
Sara Raasch
#49. To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
#50. Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
Robert Breault
#51. I think the way the greens are, you need to be very accurate with your irons. Whether there's wind or not, the most important thing out here is being able to control the distance of your irons and the direction. I've done that pretty well the last couple of days.
Luke Donald
#52. And in the distance, so faint I thought I might have imagined it, a beast's roar cleaved the land.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.
Cate Blanchett
#54. The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
Italo Calvino
#57. Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.
Blake Russell
#58. His heart quickened and he fisted his hands.There was nothing for it. When he saw the tip of Seth's tongue lick his lips and felt a hardening beneath him that mirrored his own, movie and tree forgotten, he lunged, closing the distance between their mouths.
Leona Windwalker
#59. Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
Zoe Heller
#60. Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#61. Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
David Levithan
#62. Somewhere in the distance, the synchronic circles of our pasts had tripped a domino, and the steady whirr had grown till it now drowned with the roar of contingency
Craig Johnson
#63. Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.
Laura Pritchett
#64. The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul ... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.
Maya Angelou
#65. I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.
Keith Hollihan
#66. I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and awaits my spirit too. For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
George Linnaeus Banks
#67. His gaze drops to my lips. "I shouldn't do this
"
"You really should." And I close the distance between us.
Rae Carson
#68. I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.
Thomas Kretschmann
#69. At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
Alfred Noyes
#70. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.
N. Scott Momaday
#71. You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
Neil Peart
#72. The wind stirred the drying leaves of wild grapevines with a papery rustle behind me, and in the distance a murder of crows passed, squabbling in shrill cries.
Diana Gabaldon
#73. Voltage crossed the distance between Sheila and Webster. A current composed of anger and remorse and something else-the last flicker of attraction
Anita Shreve
#74. It would not have occurred to the dwarfs to give the young queen anything they had dug themselves from beneath the earth. That would have been too easy, too routine. It's the distance that makes a gift magical, so the dwarfs believed.
Neil Gaiman
#75. A steer may not accelerate the speed of vehicle directly; by navigating the better path, it can shorten the distance or save the energy to reach the right destination.
Pearl Zhu
#76. The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself.
Richard Moss
#78. We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know.
Usain Bolt
#79. Stop talking," she said boldly as she closed the distance between them until they were touching. "We can walk to the bedroom or you can carry me but if you don't decide soon I may just go insane.
Samantha Chase
#80. With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Amie blinked through the haze of her thoughts and the constant drum of the rains. A golden light swung back and forth in the distance like a pendulum and every second drew closer. Finally, Amie could tell it wasn't a faerie light but a lantern, carried by a small green-cloaked person.
Jennifer Silverwood
#82. The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.
Various
#83. The distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion
Frederick Franck
#84. I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
Charlotte Bronte
#85. But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.
Haruki Murakami
#86. All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
Nadeem Aslam
#87. Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own.
As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.
Erin Morgenstern
#88. The task of writing consists primarily in recognizing the distance between oneself and the things around one. It is not sensitivity one needs, but a yardstick.
Haruki Murakami
#89. Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.
Nichiren
#90. I carry their beauty inside the very soul of my being. Dark with shades of grey. White with storm clouds in the distance. Because of dad and mom, I am not afraid to dream of dark victories and black beauty. I'm not afraid to be in love with the night
Diane Keaton
#91. Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.
David Sarnoff
#92. The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
Shoshana Zuboff
#93. Helen decided that the saying about "time healing all wounds" was a bunch of bull and probably only worked for people with very poor memories. The time she's spent apart from Lucas hadn't healed anything. The distance only made her miss him more.
Josephine Angelini
#94. The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
Bob Mayer
#95. She throws her jeans at me and dives into the pellucid lake, slicing through the water almost without a splash. A church bell rings out in the distance, echoing in the quiet aftermath of Everly's quick jump into the unexpected.
Rebecca Paula
#96. My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.
Brian Ferneyhough
#97. Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.
Mike McCarthy
#98. Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
Whitney M. Young
#99. When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.
Debasish Mridha
#100. The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.
Donna Lynn Hope
