Distance Quotes

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.

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.

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

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

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.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

People are trading distance for dollars.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.