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Distance Quotes

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

Bruce Feirstein

Etiquette is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance.

Sir Richard Steele

The big drum only sounds well from a distance.

Iranian Proverb

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee Williams

Distance Never Separates Two Hearts That Really Care

Emily Matthews

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Alexis Carrel

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement

Michael Korda

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance

Edwin Way Teale

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin

Lee Ann Womack

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Jean de LaFontaine

The distance between heaven and earth is no greater than one thought.

Mongolian Proverb

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

Thomas Carlyle

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver (1955-___) US novelist

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop

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

John Galsworthy

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

Samuel Johnson

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

Theodore M. Hesburgh

Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.

Sabina Sesselmann

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Albert Einstein

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

John Shirley

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government

Madame Chiang

Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal in design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose: it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance-thrown hard and with precision

Roger Angell

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears.

Bobby Jones

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