332 Distance Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. Leonardo da Vinci

Great Distance Eye Object Smaller Does Than Large Appear Near

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. Martin Heidegger

Time Result Sense Distance Between Calculation Understood Commonly Measured Two

You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city. Oliver Tambo

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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. Rudyard Kipling

Worth Seconds Distance Run Minute Sixty Unforgiving Fill

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality. Sean Connery

Equality Independence Believe Distance Hopeful About Touching More Prospects Within Always Been Scotland Than Achieving Now Ever

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. Stendhal

Imitate Distance Ways Russians French Always Years Fifty

I think we all cheer for couples who just seem right together and go the distance. Susan Lucci

Together Think Distance Seem Cheer Couples Go Just Who Right

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. Thomas Friedman

Political Language Field Distance Collaboration Several Soon Global Forces Without Geography Regard Forms Produced Multiple Even Technological Playing Playing Field

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative. Wangechi Mutu

You Looking Think Distance Nutty Intricate Obscene Idea Come Know Always Up Provocative Close Gets Loved

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Zora Neale Hurston

Man Wish Every Distance Ships Board

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. Ugo Betti

Time Memories Distance Like Stones Acid Them

Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page. Abi Morgan

People tend to keep their distance. Adam Ant

People Distance Tend Keep

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively. Al Jarreau

Distance Runner Am Literally Figuratively

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. Alexander Payne

Life Failure You Humor Sense Films Else Distance Constant Some About Something Gives Failures Well How Get Asked Your

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

People Radical Distance Projected Liberation Members Some Developing Abstraction Developing Countries Countries Particularly Ideological Comfortable West Left Fantasies Whom

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free. Amitava Kumar

Art Needs Mind Free Journalist Distance Objectivity More Writer While

Embracing cultural distance, cultural distance nationalism, means in effect taking the position that our country will be better off with more whites than non-whites. Amy Wax

Better Will Country Nationalism Our Distance Embracing More Better Off Taking Cultural Effect Off Than Means Whites Position

From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. Andrea Hirata

Innocent Building Speed Distance Laughing Sunsets Windows Voices Write Observe Crying Sound Yelling Up Front Where Children Eighth Crawl Floor Right Playground Playing

We're doing a lot of work on self-driving cars. We do not currently have cars in the U.S., but we plan to, for development and testing. I think we are within striking distance of making self-driving cars a reality, and these would be powered by deep learning. Andrew Ng

Work Learning Reality Car Think Distance Striking Would Would-Be Development Powered Within Making Doing Testing Lot Currently Plan Deep

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth. Ann Beattie

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