Distance

ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth.

- Robert Southey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

- Washington Irving Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

- Alfred Noyes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No matter what way she runs it, whether she sits in or goes from the front at about half distance, I just can't see anybody beating her. She must have been sitting there this week feeling very confident and just looking forward to it.

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If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

- Xun Zi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Cathedral, for instance, is really a very grand building when seen from a little distance, with its two high towers and its cupola behind.

- Edward Burnett Tylor Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I wouldn't describe that position as parasitic. I'd describe that experience as edifying. I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

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Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

- Leon Trotsky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

- Bob Woodward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The works are very difficult to get because most are from private collections and museums. When a painting travels a long distance, there is always a risk to the stability of the painting. These paintings are very fragile.

- Francesco Bonami Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

North Carolina is known for their women's middle-distance runners they have a big reputation for that. So to beat the girl that she beat, at North Carolina, in the heat like that, with the credentials that girl had, was outstanding. She just ran a great race. She knows how to win.

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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

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It was a pretty simple putt, if you can call it that from that distance.

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We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

- Jeffrey Hunter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

- Thomas Carlyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

- Edward Gibbon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In many cases, people can simply walk to the transit stop and don't even have to get in their cars. But if people have to drive a considerable distance to use transit, there's a built-in incentive to just continue driving to your destination.

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Nothing could more clearly give the measure of the distance that the world had travelled.

- Edith Wharton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's quite a distance for people. They may not want to be separated that long from their families, Some may say they don't want to go back.

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I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

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I want to win this race. But, at the same time, I'm really aware of the points situations. To come out of here and distance myself on the good of 10th place would be awesome.

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