Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Midler

GOD is watching us, from a Distance...

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.

Transportation time and costs, for instance, are impacted by distance and geography.

Yeah, the distance girls are helping us out a lot. People shouldn't forget that we're a small school and we are hanging in with the big ones.

We needed to make some plays that we missed in order to win. We had a few mental mistakes, but I was happy that we were within striking distance to win as the guys played hard.

We have a lot more distance to travel; that's well known to people,

We have an expanding position in the growth markets of the future ? wireless, data, broadband, long distance ? and we're executing extremely well in these areas,

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

I would like to see who is going to step up in the men's middle distance area.

We just want to keep the flames away, otherwise there's really no trouble. We need to keep people at a safe distance because we need room to work so we can safely shut off the gas.

You have to distance yourself and keep your space.

That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance.

That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day.

Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person youre trying to rip off.

I was pretty excited when The Little Red Wagon set the world's distance record in 1967.

We have a very young team. A lot of the young guys are distance runners and throwers, so hopefully a few will develop. We need to get some points in those events at dual meets especially.

Those are tough shots. It's one thing to make that putt in your office on your carpet. That same distance putt at Augusta's a little tougher.

Antawn Jamison

Those are teams that are looking like playoff-caliber teams, so for us, it's going to be a good test. We'll have the opportunity to distance ourselves or put ourselves in a hole. They're going to have the same mind frame facing us.

We are in the final stretch and heading toward a resolution overall, but there is still distance between us on the Marines' relocation cost.

We couldn't get all our times or distances in some of the events. We will have to wait until they send us the official results next week.

We have established that the radio telescope we used, the Very Long Baseline Array, can measure distances with unprecedented accuracy--nearly a factor of 100 times better than previously accomplished.

Jo Brand

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.

John C. Maxwell

Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

James Thurber

I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

James Patterson

You can help each other, Max, said the unwelcome voice. You're perfect complements to each other. "Shut up!" I hissed under my breath, and Dylan looked startled. "I didn't say anything." Gritting my teeth, I nodded. "No, I know. It's just-" I decided to take a risk and stare him down. "I hear voices, okay? If you're gonna be here, get used to it. Or else keep your distance.

James Madison

In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation . . .

John Donne

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

John O'Donohue

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.

John Aubrey

Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper.

Hermann Oberth

Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one system to another is theoretically possible, once an unlimited source of power is developed.

Hermann Hesse

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

Joseph Addison

Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.

Jordan Spieth

A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.