982 Quotes About Distance

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

It's an ideal location, within driving distance of Washington, yet removed from the immediate area.

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.