Distance Quotes - Page 6

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

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Experts

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• Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

  Robert Morgan

  Objectivity, Giving, Perspective

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• Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Political, Politics, Prestige

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

  Jean Paul

  Black, Sorrow, Looks

  "Hesperus", XIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 733-736), 1922.

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• You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Looks, Realizing

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• I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Long Distance Relationship, Ocean, White

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.224, Penguin UK

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• You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

  Steven Morrissey

  Looks, Knows, Manage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Judging, Poor

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• Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Car, Literature, Lines

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• Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

  Whitney M. Young

  People, Problem, Liberalism

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• In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

  Mao Zedong

  Running, Perseverance, Exercise

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.120, Routledge

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• I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Relationship, Eye, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Home, Two, Daily Work

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

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• I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  "Dear John". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2006.

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• Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Arms

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.54, BookBaby

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• I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

  Ravi Zacharias

  God, Religious, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Sep 02, 2013

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• But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

  Daniel Handler

  Relationship, Missing, Long Love

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• To the wrongs that need resistance,
  To the right that needs assistance,
  To the future in the distance,
  Give yourselves.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Honesty, Integrity, Women

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• It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

  Haruki Murakami

  Relationship, Thinking, Feel Good

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 11, 2013

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• One kind kiss before we part,
  Drop a tear and bid adieu;
  Though we sever, my fond heart
  Till we meet shall pant for you.

  Robert Dodsley

  Missing You, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

  Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

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• If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see...Believe And I'm always there.

  Jon Oliva

  Love, Long Distance Relationship, Believe

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• Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

  Bill Dellinger

  Running, Giving Up, Track

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• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Distance Relationship, Improving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

  Mao Zedong

  Running, Perseverance, Long

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.120, Routledge

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• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Umpires, Horizon

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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