Distance Quotes

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. (Aesop)
Age, like distance lends a double charm. View quote
Oliver Herford
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Distance is the soul of beauty. View quote
Simone Weil
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. View quote
Steven Wright
The smile is the shortest distance between two persons. View quote
Victor Borge
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. View quote
Victor Hugo
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. View quote
John Galsworthy
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. View quote
Bob Newhart
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. View quote
Graham Greene
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. (Thomas Campbell)
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. View quote
Edward Albee
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. View quote
Karl Kraus
Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then w. View quote
Dan Quayle
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. View quote
Stendhal
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. View quote
Alan Turing
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. (David Trimble)
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. View quote
Amy Bloom
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham