Top 100 The Distance Between Quotes
#1. The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
Robert Olen Butler
#2. Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
Derek Landy
#3. The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass ...
Erica Jong
#4. She was so real here. [ ... ] There, the distance between us was an impossible void; I felt all the reasons to stay away. Here, in the bookstore, with me, she seemed breathtakingly close in a way she hadn't before.
Maggie Stiefvater
#5. And the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.
Kim Edwards
#6. When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
Jeanne Moreau
#8. As she leaned forward to catch his mouth, she misjudged the distance between them and smashed against his chest. He caught her, roping an arm around her wait.
"Forget me tomorrow. Hell, forget me tonight." Shivers danced over Emelia's skin and she closed her eyes. "But kiss me now.
Kristin Miller
#9. She stared at the featureless iron and felt more keenly than ever the distance between them. Now. Now was the time to say what might be the last words he would ever hear from her.
"Fight," she said at last. "Win.
Suzannah Rowntree
#10. Kahana was the first to close the distance between them, joining their two universes into one. Stars exploded and meteors crashed into planets as they shared a kiss that felt like more than just magic. It was love.
Aishabella Sheikh
#12. Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.
Amit Ray
#13. Music shortens the distance between all people.
Jeffrey Fry
#15. No, the douchelord simply closed the distance between us and plunged a syringe into my neck.
Laura Thalassa
#16. Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.
Doug Larson
#17. He mistook my frustration for anger towards him, which seemed to be typical for us lately. The longer the distance between a correct diagnosis, the greater the silence we shared.
Tracey Berkowitz
#18. I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
#19. No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
Christie Watson
#20. The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.
Jan Chipchase
#21. My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.
Fred Funk
#22. Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
Harry Mathews
#24. I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.
Kristen Simmons
#25. The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers
Lev S. Vygotsky
#27. That's what Old World love really is. To be so close to someone that our hearts are connected by a force stronger than the distance between us.
Eloise Dyson
#28. If we were to plot the distance between where you are RIGHT NOW and the nearest good idea, it would describe a line too big to fit inside the universe.
Brian Clevinger
#29. The ice was there. The distance between him and the rest of the world.
Christine Feehan
#30. After all these years, he stood humbled and she stood corrected. Tara's eyes were downcast as she looked at the distance between them. If he had taken a step towards her, she was sure she could take a million too.
Mita Jain
#31. Have the courage to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, for the distance between you and your dreams is merely action. Never hope. Hope will lead you nowhere. The greatest lesson I learned was that those who reach for their dreams walk in stardust.
Dylan Saccoccio
#32. It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed.
Geraldine Brooks
#33. If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.
Ethel Smyth
#34. So I can't explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us.
Colleen Oakley
#35. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Ian Fleming
#36. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#37. The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary.
Ravi Zacharias
#38. He's a monster, wrapped up in a pretty package. But I find myself wondering at times like this, when I feel the distance between us, if maybe in his eyes, the real monster is me.
J.M. Darhower
#39. I want to burn down the distance between us
James Ellroy
#40. Something that had possibly caused the distance between us, but might also bring us back together.
Tom Perrotta
#41. The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior
or lack of integrity
a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain. - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)
Tara Leigh Cobble
#42. There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#43. She'd thought with time the distance between her and her friends would narrow, but that gap had only widened and she couldn't find the energy to pretend otherwise. So she remained alone, working silently
Brit Bennett
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.
Paulo Coelho
#48. 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
#49. The distance between you and me disappears with us.
J.R. Rim
#50. The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical
Arthur Koestler
#51. I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.
Dee Dee Ramone
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#56. 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
#57. In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
Shirley Temple
#58. The distance between us grows with each passing minute. Will he take my arm again, or will I have to take his?
Stephanie Perkins
#59. The toughest moment ever in life is the distance between struggle and success.
M.F. Moonzajer
#60. 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
#61. Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.
Cate Blanchett
#62. 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
#63. Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
Zoe Heller
#64. 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
#65. His gaze drops to my lips. "I shouldn't do this
"
"You really should." And I close the distance between us.
Rae Carson
#66. 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
#67. The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself.
Richard Moss
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. The distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion
Frederick Franck
#71. All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
Nadeem Aslam
#72. I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
Danica Patrick
#73. Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda
#75. The distance between comfortable and comatose is surprisingly short.
Jon Acuff
#76. Catching my breath. I watch them go. I watch them disregard gravity, the ground, and the distance between us. And though an old feeling, one of the wings, haunts my shoulder blades, I stay pinned to the window. I've learned that I cannot go with them
Samantha Hunt
#77. Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
Maya Angelou
#78. But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.
Galt Niederhoffer
#79. The longer a life, the challenge is not the distance between destinations, but the difficulty of travelling light. My soul's a portmanteau packed full, one half filled with what was, the other with what is, what should be.
Jamie A. Hughes
#80. I felt small, like one does when the distance between stars occasionally asserts itself into your understanding, like when your own death's inevitability leaps in front of you in the middle of the night when you get up to pee.
Stan Goff
#81. Your death defines my life. I want to find the love we never had and explicate it in your name.
I want to take your secrets public. I want to burn down the distance between us.
I want to give you breath.
James Ellroy
#82. I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
Franz Wright
#83. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.
Pete Carril
#84. The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.
Anonymous
#85. The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.
Charles Spurgeon
#86. You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free
you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.
Arvo Part
#87. 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
#88. You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
Madame De Stael
#89. 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
#90. Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.
Karen Barber
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. There is no distance so minute and yet so great as the distance between God and man. (The Lonesome God)
Jonathan R. Walton
#94. They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.
Cassandra Clare
#95. I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.
Mark Ruffalo
#96. 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
#97. The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
Rene Girard
#98. There are few things sadder in this life than watching someone walk away after they've left you. Watching the distance between your bodies expand until there's nothing but empty space and silence.
Laura Zigman
#99. I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
Jim Crace
#100. She'd hated spending the daylight hours away from him, hated the distance between them, and she wasn't letting it go on anymore on her side.
J.R. Ward
