Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Midler

GOD is watching us, from a Distance...

Charles Lindbergh

On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

Charles Lindbergh

Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.

Charles Lindbergh

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

We're back. That is what it used to be and we need to keep it there. It worked today, but those distances aren't going to hold up all the time.

Bertolt Brecht

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Chad Kroeger

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

Donald Rumsfeld

We are at some distance from effectively finishing the task.

We're interested to see how she can do. We've been lacking in distance the last two years.

Caspar David Friedrich

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

Casey Kasem

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

Casey Kasem

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

Carl Hiaasen

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Bo Jackson

I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.

So far in the last three meets, he's had personal bests. That's what you're looking for, especially in the distance events.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Juan Fernandez

The laser scanner measures the time it takes (to go) from the instrument to the wall. Then it computes the distance between the wall and the layers of paint.

I want to see her finishing the race so that we can move farther later on. I don't think the distance is ideal. We want to run longer.

In many parts of Idaho, as in many rural States, there simply aren't enough dentists within reasonable distance of some communities.

Carlisle Floyd

It's very easy to distance yourself from period pieces because either through costuming or whatever, they don't seem to be as much of our time.

They will be a lot brighter, which means they'll be easier to see and at a greater distance in all kinds of weather conditions.

This is the most exciting innovation that long distance running has ever witnessed.

Douglas Wilson

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Donald Miller

I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.

Donald Miller

It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.

Don Shula

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Colleen Hoover

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Dalai Lama

When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.

Dalai Lama

Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

Dalai Lama

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

Jan Ullrich

In the Tour, it's important to use every opportunity to distance or eliminate adversaries and if there's a chance, I won't hesitate to attack.

Ron Wilson

I never would have thought he'd score the last goal from that distance with the goalie set. You're thinking, 'OK, just shoot it' and the goalie whiffed on it. That ended up being the difference.