Long Distance Quotes - Page 6

• You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.

  Erich Hartmann

  Distance, Thinking, Sight

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• Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

  James M. Cain

  Girl, Distance, Years

  James M. Cain (1982). “The Butterfly”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment is now in the process of development; that its eventual perfection is but a matter of time; and its use in warfare is certain to occur. I refer to the rocket. The perfection of the rocket in my opinion will give to future warfare the horror unknown in previous conflicts and will make possible destruction of nations, in a cool, passionless and scientific fashion.

  David Lasser

  Fashion, Distance, Future

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• Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

  Pratibha Patil

  Distance, Goal, Long

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Life, Distance, Animal

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

  Olivier Martinez

  Nice, Distance, Long

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• We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Long Distance Relationship, Parent, Distance

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• The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Life Lesson, Acceptance

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

  Alexandra Kosteniuk

  Distance, Play, World

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

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's what this means to me.

  Hayley Williams

  Distance, Mean, Phones

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• This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

  Jacques Delors

  Distance, Government, Long

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• It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

  Derek Jacobi

  Distance, Civilization, Hard Life

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• Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

  Henry Knox

  Distance, Men, Taxes

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• It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Distance, Historical, Lines

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• What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

  Winifred Holtby

  Distance, People, Strange

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• We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

  Helmut Jahn

  Distance, Unique, Creating

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• Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

  Beth Gibbons

  Distance, Years, Feels

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• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Distance, Golf

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• Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Eye, Long

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• When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

  Ann Beattie

  New York, Distance, Cities

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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

  Distance, Crowds, Ifs

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• The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

  Payne Stewart

  Long Distance Relationship, Sports, Fall

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• I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

  Casey Kasem

  Distance, Reading, Dedication

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• If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

  Carlo Petrini

  Distance, Thinking, Journey

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