Distance Quotes

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

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.

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

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

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

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.