Distance Quotes

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

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

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Where there is love, distance doesn't matter.
Mata Amritanandamayi

Conversation shortens the distance, singing lightens the load.

One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Noelie Altito

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.
Jason Zebehazy

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Chazal

High above the lake a bomber flies. From the rowing boats Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance They appear like young starlings, their beaks Wide open for food.

One who pursues a goal through sinful ways, will ironically distance himself from that goal, and will approach what he was afraid of.

The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it. All roles are dangerous. The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

Mother, any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands.

We do not speak. We have gone down along the side of the river slowly, as if we were climbing towards the stone seat of the wall. The distances have altered. This seat, for instance, we meet it sooner than we thought we should, like some one in the dark; but it is the seat all right. The rose-tree which grew above it has withered away and become a crown of thorns.

Since Jesus Christ is a servant, looking to Him cannot mean looking away from the world, from men, from life, or, as is often said, from oneself. It cannot mean looking away into some distance or height. To look to Him is to see Him at the very centre, to see Him and the history which, accomplished in Him, heals everything and all things, as the mystery, reality, origin and goal of the whole world, all men, all life. To look to Him is to cleave to Him as the One who bears away the sin of the world. It is to be bound and liberated, claimed, consoled, cheered and ruled by Him.

The distance from the contemporary and its high seriousness that students most need in order not to indulge their petty desires and to discover what is most serious about themselves cannot be found in the cinema, which now only knows the present.

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I ve left the Past in Gods keeping,the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
Mary Gardiner Brainard







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