Distance Quotes - page 8

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner. (Diana Nyad)

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

Dreama Walker

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

Evangelista Torricelli

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

George Linnaeus Banks

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

Geoff Mulgan

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

Haile Gebrselassie

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

Helmut Jahn

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

Hiam Abbass

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

Heather O'Reilly

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

Jeffrey Hunter

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. (John Wesley Powell)

I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

Jonathan Ames

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

Kevin Conroy

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

Levon Helm

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

Lawrence Kasdan

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.

Majora Carter

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.

Martin Jacques

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

Peter Morgan

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

Payne Stewart

People are trading distance for dollars.

Ray Brown

Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance. (Sadie Jones)

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

Shoshana Zuboff

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

Solomon Ortiz

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Sydney Schanberg

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Sam Snead

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