Quotes about Distance

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's wo — Robert Southey
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephon — Emily Greene Balch
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. — Haile Gebrselassie
For time is the longest distance between two places. — Tennessee Williams
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved an — Henri Nouwen
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying — Graham Greene
The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. — Henry Rollins
While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It mi — Seth Shostak
I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed. — Bernardo Bertolucci
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. — Jean Paul
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his — Ambrose Bierce
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say — Henry Knox
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. — Marilyn vos Savant
When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fat — Bradley Wiggins
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were — Cynthia Ozick
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. — Carrie Chapman Catt