Quotes about distance
distance life-is shame
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. Adam Duritz
distance technology technological-change
Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world. Andy Grove
distance thinking glasses
Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?' 'She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family. Ally Carter
distance taken someday
He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore. Ann Brashares
distance feels good win
To go the distance like that, that's a good win for us. And it feels good in overtime.
distance guys ran run short
We didn't run as well as we wanted to, but some of us ran pretty effectively. Our short sprinters struggled, but our distance guys faired better.
distance missiles suicide thousands
We don't have long distance missiles or many bombers, but we will deploy thousands of suicide attackers ... the martyrs,
distance blow absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. William Shakespeare
distance believe simple
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough. Adam Gopnik
distance people
People tend to keep their distance. Adam Ant
distance space mind
Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. Abraham Lincoln
distance mean people
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty. Alexander Hamilton
distance home two
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. Aleksandar Hemon
distance mean thinking
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. Alejandro Amenabar
distance middle made
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. Alberto Juantorena
distance fall confusion
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. Alberto Giacometti
distance thinking space
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately. Albert Einstein
distance men order
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
distance sky sea
There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
distance self growth
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject. Alexander Fleming
distance eye order
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. Aldous Huxley
distance men sitting-still
It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
distance believe reality
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].
distance believe lines
Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
distance people levels
If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people. Aaron Levie
distance fifth good hoping runners start team threw
Megan threw 110-11 which is a good start for her. Christina did a good job. We were fifth as a team overall. We were hoping to do a little better but we didn't have much for distance runners today.
distance four gaining games ground needed
Of all four games on the trip, this was the one we needed to get some distance between us and this team. We've been winning, and we haven't been gaining any ground on these guys.
distance easier groups negative others positive social spin ways
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own. Daniel Goleman
distance motive pride-and-prejudice-pride
The distance is nothing when one has a motive. Jane Austen
distance land cottages
I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.
distance two parent
I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents. Jane Wagner
distance gained graduation lost points score team year
What we lost to graduation we gained with new girls. Our distance team could score more points this year with who we have.
distances people power remarkable tolkien travel
Because of the power of the Tolkien name, people will travel from remarkable distances to see this production.