Quotes About Distance

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?

I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.

As I silently rub the drops of blood on the wall, I can only find the right words when I think of that merciful and just God who is so far away, and yet so close.

Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

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

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

Happiness can be close by, even if your heart is far away.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it it's too far to walk back.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.