Top 100 Quotes About Time And Distance
#1. Children leave ... and parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father ... And he will always leave a light on for you.
Fred Savage
#2. What a powerful feeling, love, able to withstand time and distance and disagreements. No wonder I wanted it so badly.
Jodi Meadows
#3. 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
#4. If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
Kathleen Tessaro
#5. Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
Anthony Kiedis
#6. True friends may only speak several times a year and visit even less. But when life's challenges leave one of them vulnerable and in need of compassion, time and distance are no obstacles.
Shane Eric Mathias
#7. Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
Doris Lessing
#8. George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.
Mark McKinnon
#9. But time and distance are love's natural enemies.
Nicola Yoon
#10. Blood doesn't make family, and time and distance doesn't break it. Like the moon, family will always be there, even when it's too dark to see it. Keep strong and it will light your way home, wherever you are.
June Stevens Westerfield
#11. For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.
Larry Lucchino
#12. True love is unbounded, unmitigated, and lasts forever. It never diminishes with time and distance.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
Arthur M. Jolly
#14. Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
Emily Greene Balch
#15. The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
Charles Lindbergh
#16. They say distance makes old friendships fade away. They say with time and distance lovers forget one another. I find it quite the opposite. Distance, time, they all enhance the aroma of every moment two close souls once spent together, they magnify every little shared pleasure.
Carol Vorvain
#17. We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.
V.C. Andrews
#19. I waited for him to come with me, to accept that we were now in this together again, that time and distance and uncertainty hadn't been enough to shake us. And he did.
Alexandra Bracken
#20. But time and distance is nothing in the face of true affinity ...
Eleanor Catton
#21. Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Ugo Betti
#22. You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.
Debasish Mridha
#23. I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#24. We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.
Allan Haines Loughead
#25. Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
Jonathan Franzen
#26. Some things don't cange no mattered what's happened. even things that fade with time and distance aren't really ever lost.
Gennifer Albin
#27. Books spoke mind to mind, soul to soul across the abyss of time and distance.
Rachel Caine
#28. Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
Barry Unsworth
#29. And she wondered if it were possible to love someone enough to die from it. If it were possible to love someone enough that time and distance and death were of no concern.
Sarah J. Maas
#30. Refugees didn't just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they'd put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day.
Nadia Hashimi
#31. Are you - are you sad?"
- No.
"But your - your songs are sad."
- My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells.
William Gibson
#32. Books are a form of magic - " the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, " - because they span time and distance more surely than any spell or charm.
Tad Williams
#33. Two people may have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling; it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves-that is the state of ultimate love.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#34. Neither one of them could turn off their feelings, even with so much time and distance between them. The more they were apart, and the more they weren't allowed to be together, the more they loved each other.
Donna Lynn Hope
#35. It would be like those epic love affairs that exploded into existence and burned white hot for all eternity. The type of love that time and distance and death couldn't seperate
Marissa Meyer
#36. It is a rare moment where one can glimpse the truth of lost moments, bonds that were chosen and broken, and the decisions that remain through time and distance.
Ava Leigh Stewart
#37. Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.
Laura Fitzgerald
#38. Some fires can't bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As
Craig Johnson
#39. Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
Wislawa Szymborska
#40. The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. The contemplation of it, even at this distance of time, has taken away my breath and my grammar, and unless I subdue my emotion, my spelling will go too.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#44. This is not what you want to hear, but to me, it doesn't seem there was a time before I loved you. And though I try to keep my distance from you ... even now you keep giving me reasons to love you more.
Cayla Kluver
#45. If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
Zach Johnson
#46. 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
#47. The time we waste is equal to the distance between ourselves and the iron rod.
Kimberly Jo Smith
#48. Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
Wendell Berry
#49. Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
Beth Gibbons
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her..the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart.
Amanda Stevens
#53. I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a duel. If any man should wrong me to the extent of my being willing to kill him, I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done, and of the time, place and distance separating us, when I executed him.
Ulysses S. Grant
#54. It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#55. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further: it was then that I called to you for the first time, and you would not come.
E. M. Forster
#56. It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
Lauren Oliver
#57. When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
Haile Gebrselassie
#58. I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: 'You, who see nothing but evil ... You, who see evil everywhere ... ' It was true, and it was not true.
Francois Mauriac
#59. I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.
Megan McCafferty
#60. 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
#61. By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
Rabih Alameddine
#62. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
James Joyce
#63. Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
William Hazlitt
#64. a poem written for someone special to me, but a woman who I can't be with all the time due to where we are in life right now. Through the distance love can still survive, it just takes a little hard work and stubbornness at time.
Robert Zimmermann
#65. 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
#66. Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele ... Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.
Gary Lineker
#67. The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy
a paradise lost
waiting to be found.
Robert Holden
#68. Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if they were desperate to be somebody different from who they were. So, best keep your distance.
Charles Frazier
#69. No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting ..
Alicia Keys
#70. Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: "What a pointless existence." Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time.
Paulo Coelho
#71. But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast.
Pete McCarthy
#72. I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
Jo Brand
#73. Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn't kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.
V.S. Kemanis
#74. My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves.
Marc Maron
#75. Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.
Liz Goldwyn
#76. I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.
Mark Ruffalo
#77. From a distance, at a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic notions - quaint and sepia-toned from an America that no longer exists.
John Branch
#78. Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
Dennis Quaid
#80. When two hearts are meant for each other no distance is so far, no time is so long and no other love can break them apart.
Yusuf Islam
#81. This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and time ... I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in.
Paula Vogel
#82. 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
#83. The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with the years of travel.
Rebecca Solnit
#84. To her
Even endless expanding distance of time space and matter is not enough to tell you how I feel. It is there inside the mysterious identity we call soul.
Sameh Elsayed
#85. I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#86. It was a tradition for Frau Holtzapfel, one of their neighbors, to spit on the Hubermanns' door every time she walked past. The front door was only meters from the gate, and let's just say that Frau Holtzapfel had the distance - and the accuracy.
Markus Zusak
#87. My first years on tour, I tried to be super professional by considering the yardages to every feature and hazard. Over time my caddie and I noticed I play better when we keep it simple. Think about the distance you want the ball to fly, and only that number.
Rickie Fowler
#88. Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.
Genevieve Dewey
#89. Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
Lyall Watson
#90. He called and we saw each other from time to time, but the
distance did what it always does - it grew us apart.
Danka V.
#91. A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
Tyler Perry
#92. And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put the city's hand out to the country; and were the end of the past because they spanned not only distance and deep water but dreams and time.
Mark Helprin
#93. Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
Abraham Lincoln
#94. What was it like? Hell if I know. But next time someone asks.... I'll answer crooked, and I'll answer long. And when they get confused or angry, I'll smile. Finally, I'll think. Someone who understands.
Matt Gallagher
#95. I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward.
Ryan Hall
#96. when people stopped having enough money to make long distance calls, or the energy and time to write, they disappeared ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].
Ariana Kelly
#97. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?
Hanif Kureishi
#98. Time isn't running out. It's not even real," he said, and I knew I had lost him - he was lost, circling in his own mind. "It's just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile.
Megan Miranda
#99. During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical splendor but also the exceedingly utilitarian idea of running away, the deliverance from fear and hunger.
Danilo Kis
#100. Lee," I say and tilt her head with my fingers. "If we truly love each other, not time, another man, or distance will keep us apart. Do you trust that enough?
Corinne Michaels
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