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80+ Distance Quotes

Distance means the amount of space between two places or things. Distance also refers to the fact or condition of being apart in space. This is a collection of 80+ Distance quotes and sayings.


The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. - Archimedes
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. - Robert Morgan
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. - Taylor Swift
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. - Og Mandino
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. - Robert Southey
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. - Gilbert Parker
You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance. - Sarah Hall
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. - John Galsworthy
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
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times. - Yoko Ono
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. - Brian Aldiss
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. - Alan Turing
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. - Zora Neale Hurston
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. - Zora Neale Hurston
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. - Michael Korda
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. - Bruce Feirstein
The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time. - Simon Sinek
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. - Carrie Chapman Catt
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. - Yakov Smirnoff
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. - Martin Heidegger
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. - Karl Kraus
For time is the longest distance between two places. - Tennessee Williams
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. - Jean Paul
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. - Edward Albee
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. - Leo Aikman
Age, like distance lends a double charm. - Oliver Herford
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. - Ivan Illich
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. - Noam Chomsky
Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact. - Maximillian Degenerez
Do we need distance to get close? - Sarah Jessica Parker
Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed. - Robert J. Shiller
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. - Theodore Hesburgh
A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all. - Rainbow Rowell
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. - Doris Lessing
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction. - Nawal El Saadawi
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak. - Lisa Randall
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. - Jonathan Raban
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. - Thomas Campbell
The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies. - Arancha Gonzalez
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. - Luis Miguel
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. - Whitney M. Young
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. - Victor Hugo
It's easy to demonize from a distance. - Rick Warren
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. - Marilyn vos Savant
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. - Charles de Gaulle
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself. - Benedict Cumberbatch
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom. - Jose Andres
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. - Ramsey Clark
I think sometimes you need distance to reflect. - Lynn Nottage
Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included. - Jerry Della Femina
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. - Peter Morgan
People tend to keep their distance. - Adam Ant
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. - Richard Cobden
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. - Mary Astell
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke. - Victoria Moran
In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance. - Tim Cope
It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love. - Olivier Martinez
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance. - Helmut Jahn
I'm at my best when there's distance between me and a man. - Nell Carter
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. - Patricia Clarkson
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior. - Candice Bergen
Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance. - Sadie Jones
Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. - Robert Pinsky
The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing. - Jan Chipchase
A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. - Sean Astin
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. - Alberto Juantorena
Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap. - Matthew Desmond
Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go. - Lana Del Rey
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real. - Hunter S. Thompson
Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people. - Rohinton Mistry
Time is the longest distance between two places. - Tamara Ireland Stone
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. - Samuel Johnson
Sometimes distance was easier than acting, or explaining. - Laura Kaye
The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch. - Anthony Liccione
Distance brings sweetness. Absence tames what is near. - Christian Bobin
Do not distance yourself from the people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most. - Gift Gugu Mona
Irremediably, little by little, the distance between them became an insurmountable abyss. - Zøe Haslie
Where you are today and where you want to be lies a gap. That gap is the price you have to pay to get to the top. - Oscar Bimpong
Distance is one of the most beautiful forms of respect. - Hervé Guibert
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love. - Simone Weil
A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance. - Mladen Đorđević
If someone gives you tough situation, it's better to make a distance. - Avinash Advani
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