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Quotes About Distance

From a distance, at a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic notions - quaint and sepia-toned from an America that no longer exists.
~ John Branch
It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.
~ James Gray
You can grow apart from people very quickly.
~ Rachael Leigh Cook
I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.
~ James McAvoy
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
~ Roger Bannister
New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
~ Don Kardong
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
~ Amitava Kumar
For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.
~ Ernie Els
Getting in field-goal range isn't that tough.
~ Joe Flacco
You don't get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.
~ Ron Johnson
I particularly like Facebook because it straddles the gap between seeing people and not seeing them.
~ Chris Benz
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
~ Emil Cioran
Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
~ Andre Benjamin
I wanted to go away from home, but not too far from home.
~ Tavon Austin
I'll always be a Georgia girl at heart, but I live in Los Angeles full time. My parents still live in Georgia, so I go home as often as I can.
~ Melissa Ordway
We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.
~ John Gourley
I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.
~ Paul Auster
I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
~ Franz Wright
Podes despedir-te da tua família e dos teus amigos e afastar-te milhares de quilómetros, mas, ao mesmo tempo, leva-los no teu coração, na tua mente, no teu estomâgo, pois não só vives no mundo, mas o mundo vive em ti
~ Frederick Buechner
Gali atsisveikindamas pabu?iuoti savo artimuosius ir bi?iulus, ir nutolti nuo j? per mylias, ta?iau vis tiek nešiesi juos savo širdyje, mintyse, pilve, nes ne tik tu gyveni pasaulyje, bet ir pasaulis gyvena tavyje.
~ Frederick Buechner
I am not angry with anybody. But when I am alone it seems to me that I can see my friends in a clearer and rosier light than when I am with them; and when I loved and felt music best I lived far from it. It would seem that I must have distant perspectives in order that I may think well of things.
~ Freidrich Nietzsche
I fear you close by; I love you far away.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of philology, I am never far, my thoughts always circle around you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Do I advise you to love thy neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from thy neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for thy neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche