Distance Quotes - Page 4

• When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

  Van Morrison

  People, Separation

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• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator

  Galen

  Spiritual, Emotional, Feelings

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• We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

  Ellen Goodman

  Mother, Father, Parenting

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

  Graham Greene

  Fake People, Writing, Reality

  Graham Greene (1993). “Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

  Casey Kasem

  Dedication, Long, Stories

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

  Michael Korda

  Success, Achievement, Finals

  "Success!". p. 272. Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• People are trading distance for dollars.

  Ray Brown

  Long, People, Dollars

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• In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Messages, Firsts

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• I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

  Levon Helm

  Crowds, Ifs, Happens

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• My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Father, Class, Distance Relationship

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• Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

  Diane Warren

  Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Long Distant Relationship

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• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  Bill Rodgers

  Athlete, Drug, Use

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• Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Organization, Layers, Management

  FaceBook post by Donald Rumsfeld from Aug 17, 2011

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• There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

  Susie Bright

  Christian, Motherhood, Criticism

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• My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

  Janet Jackson

  Dad, Winning, Taught Us

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

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• Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friendship, Sad, Heart

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• Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

  Nancy Friday

  Long Distance Relationship, Separation, Ends

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

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• If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Relationship, Romantic

  "Fictional character: Christopher Robin". "Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Positive, Long Distance Relationship

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• I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Halloween, Dark, Night

  Song: All Souls Night

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• 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

  Dream, Hope, Life Lesson

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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