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Distance Quotes

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

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

Ben Crenshaw

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

Tommy Bolt

A heart truly in love never loses hope but always believes in the promise of love, no matter how long the time and how far the distance.

Unknown

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Charles Edward Montague

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Gilbert Parker

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

Hans Nouwens

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Oliver Herford

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Samuel Johnson

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Samuel Johnson

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!.

Denis Diderot

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Mark Twain

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

Jean de LaFontaine

Old people see best in the distance.

German Proverb

Respect is greater from a distance.

Latin Proverb

The distance is nothing it is only the first step that costs.

Madame Marie du Deffand

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.

Orlando A. Battista

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Ivan Illich

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

Jean Paul Richter

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Denis Diderot

Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence

Samuel Johnson

There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it.

Olaus J. Murie

Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth... It is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.

Sigurd F. Olson

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