Distance Quotes - page 2

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. View quote
Robert Southey
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. View quote
Indra Nooyi
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? View quote
Jules Verne
Distance is a great promoter of admiration. View quote
Denis Diderot
Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet. View quote
William Wordsworth
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance. View quote
William Wordsworth
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? (Vitruvius)
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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? View quote
Ellen Goodman
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. View quote
Isaac Newton
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance. View quote
Albert Einstein
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. View quote
Andrea Hirata
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise. View quote
Tom Perrotta
History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way. View quote
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar. (Lydia Davis)
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. View quote
Sharon Olds
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. View quote
Carrie Chapman Catt
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love. View quote
Olivier Martinez