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Quotes About Distance

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
~ Charles Lindbergh
With Hyperloop One, we are on the brink of the first great breakthrough in transportation technology of the 21st century, eliminating the barriers of time and distance and unlocking vast economic opportunities.
~ Shervin Pishevar
I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.
~ Leroy Chiao
I like the Suncoast so much. It is miles from the Strip. It reminds me of the old Vegas atmosphere when things were a little more personal.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
When a ball is struck with more velocity and at the right angle to create the most distance, you end up with a bomb.
~ Gabe Kapler
When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.
~ Miguel Cabrera
Shooting of course has certain challenges, especially in terms of safety aspects to be sorted and venues are far away from the scene of action.
~ Abhinav Bindra
Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal.
~ David Grinspoon
You'll find that one-length irons are far more versatile around the greens. You can vary the trajectory more, your distance control will improve because you can choke down more if you want.
~ Bryson DeChambeau
cette liberté, je l'ai cherchée bien loin ; elle était si proche que je ne pouvais la voir, que je ne peux pas la toucher, elle n'était que moi.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing more at all.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Anny kar??mda, dört y?ld?r birbirimizi görmedik, ama birbirimize söyleyecek sözümüz yok art?k.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
But these same poor benighted pedophiles were required by the parole board to live within those same city limits. Because twenty-five hundred feet is, when you think about it, a relatively long distance, it turned out that there was only one place where these people could live that satisfied both requirements—underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway, on a spoil island halfway between
~ Jeff Lindsay
But these same poor benighted pedophiles were required by the parole board to live within those same city limits. Because twenty-five hundred feet is, when you think about it, a relatively long distance, it turned out that there was only one place where these people could live that satisfied both requirements—underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway, on a spoil island halfway between Miami and Miami Beach.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Then I notice, about a hundred yards away, to my right, a tall, black metal fence and, beyond, some buildings.
~ Jeffery Deaver
to be in the middle distance, and he was not perceptibly
~ Jeffrey Archer
Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
That one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else…is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has…any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent…but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I have left to…my readers.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
None of my friends live closer than a forty-five-minute drive from me, and the rest of my tribe lives in different time zones, but distance doesn't matter. Whenever we get together, it's like no time has passed.
~ Jen Lancaster
I miss you even when you are here
~ Jennifer Clement
When we walk I hear your footsteps and miss your voice
~ Jennifer Clement
This seemed to drive home the basic principle that perspective and distance affect perception.
~ Jennifer Coburn
Cynthie was enchanting up close. And from far away. From everywhere, really, which was how he'd ended up saying yes to her all the time. Cal glanced at her impeccably tight little body in her impeccably tight little red dress and then took a step back as he jerked his eyes away, reminding himself of how peaceful life was without her. Distance, that was the key. Maybe a cross and some garlic, too.
~ Jennifer Crusie