Long Distance Quotes - Page 6

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Distance, Two, Space

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• People are trading distance for dollars.

  Ray Brown

  Distance, Long, People

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• This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

  Jacques Delors

  Distance, Government, Long

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• I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

  Luis Miguel

  Distance, Long, Sanity

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• I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

  David Harewood

  Mother, Dad, Distance

  "David Harewood: My family values". Interview with Busola Evans, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Running, Dog, Distance

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• If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

  Carlo Petrini

  Distance, Thinking, Journey

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• We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

  Casey Kasem

  Distance, Dedication, Long

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• Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

  Michael Korda

  Success, Distance, Achievement

  "Success!". p. 272. Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Teacher, Thinking

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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• We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Distance, Mean

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Distance, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

  Susan Orlean

  Distance, Rain, Kids

  "Hello, It’s Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

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• Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

  Jean Paul

  Distance, Black, Sorrow

  "Hesperus", XIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 733-736), 1922.

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• It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one’s working here and one’s working there, or one’s staying at home and one’s off someplace else.

  Dennis Quaid

  Long Distance Relationship, Home, Wind

  "Dennis Quaid on Fame, Fatherhood, and His First TV Series". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 20, 2012.

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• In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Running, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.167, Penguin

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• Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

  Keith Urban

  Running, Distance, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard in my life. She could sing anything - classical, jazz, blues, opera. And people came from long distances to that little church she went to - African Methodist Episcopal, the AME church she belonged to - just hear her.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Mother, Distance

  "'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 20, 2015.

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• The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Eye, Light

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• Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

  Leona Lewis

  Relationship, Distance, Long

  "Leona Lewis looking lovely in Cosmo as she hits back at critics of her goody two-shoes image" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. September 10, 2009.

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• The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

  Simon Newcomb

  Distance, Future, Airplane

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• Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Eye, Long

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• The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.

  Pete Sampras

  Distance, Home, Loss

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

  Albert Camus

  Running, Distance, Long

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Distance, Car, Literature

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