Distance Quotes

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

~ Thomas Carlyle

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

~ Francois Hollande

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

~ Virginia Postrel

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

~ Victor Borge

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

~ Ellen Goodman

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

~ Scott Weiland

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

~ John Galsworthy

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

~ Thomas Campbell

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.

~ Brian Ferneyhough

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.

~ Jeff Minter

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

~ Robert Southey

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

~ Emily Greene Balch

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

~ Haile Gebrselassie

For time is the longest distance between two places.

~ Tennessee Williams

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

~ Henri Nouwen

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

~ Graham Greene

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

~ Henry Rollins

While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more.

~ Seth Shostak

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

~ Bernardo Bertolucci

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

~ Jean Paul

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

~ Henry Knox

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

~ Bradley Wiggins

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

~ Cynthia Ozick

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

~ Carrie Chapman Catt