Quotes About Distance

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the International Space Station, orbits around the Earth at about 200 miles.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I want to stay away from controversies.

I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

Yes, staying away from family is the biggest challenge and I miss going back home after work.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

May not political passion be a net which holds the heart distant from all that has nourished it?

The Franks may have lived near them, but I could no more choose to join them at their well-appointed table (to return to David Brooks's cafeteria metaphor) than I could flap my arms and fly to the moon.

And as the smart ship grewIn stature, grace, and hue,In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!

Now 'tis little joyTo know I'm farther off from heavenThan when I was a boy.

Sometimes you just have to keep some distance between yourself and reality, even if it means becoming a little less human.

Political identities that were once constructed from life among those we know in places we live are now formed over huge distances among strangers whose bonds are formed mostly over things they loathe in common.

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

With agoraphobia you feel safe only when you are in certain environments. Your anxiety increases every time your 'safe place' is unavailable, blocked, or becomes more distant.

Yet who can presume to say what the war wants, so vast and aloof it is… so absentee.

We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.

It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.

Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.

No matter how perilous the journey, it's never over for true soul mates. Who doesn't want a connection that burns forever, despite distance, time, and curses?

It would have been the middle of nowhere if it had been closer to other places.

Conor McGregor knows how to control distance well, but Anderson does it like nobody else.