Long Distance Quotes - Page 5

• It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

  William Mountford

  Daughter, Distance, Son

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.379

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• It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

  Derek Jacobi

  Distance, Civilization, Hard Life

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• Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

  Henry Knox

  Distance, Men, Taxes

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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.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Distance, Historical, Lines

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• What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

  Winifred Holtby

  Distance, People, Strange

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

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Long Distance Relationship, Parent, Distance

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• Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view—and your eyes are full of happy tears—and you want to sing—and wish you had wings! And then—you can’t stay there, but must continue your journey—you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Distance, Eye, Journey

  Lloyd C. Douglas (2012). “The Robe”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Eric Carle

  Distance, Book, Taken

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• Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

  Andre Agassi

  Loyalty, Distance, Long

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• About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

  Anson Mount

  Distance, Years, Long

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. December 2012.

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• I guess travelling that kind of long distance and travelling at such a slow pace, it wasn't something that I was thinking about when I was inside of the cistern, but when I started hearing the music played back to me for the first time by an ensemble, it totally brought me back, immediately, to memories of sailing. And it really became apparent that this was some sort of a through line in my life that I was excited to explore more.

  Jherek Bischoff

  Memories, Distance, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Running, Distance, Animal

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• I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop', but the ship doesn't stop immediately. It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Distance, Ocean, Inspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Distance, Long, Letters

  "De iride ('On the rainbow')". Treatise by Robert Grosseteste,

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• Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.

  Hunter Hayes

  Long Distance Relationship, Views, Care

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• 9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to speak to each other manually; today one or both ends of the conversation would be carried on by a machine.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Distance, Party

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• One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Long Distance Relationship, Light, Movement

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  Jacky Ickx

  Distance, Years, Long

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• The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

  Holly Madison

  Couple, Distance, Long

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• Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

  Gib Lewis

  Distance, Texas, Long

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• I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

  Drew Barrymore

  Distance, Long, Affair

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• In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

  Virgil Goode

  Distance, Organization, Long

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• These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Distance, Communication, Long

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• There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Distance, Two, Unification Church

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• The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

  Karl Kraus

  Distance, Long, Looks

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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