Distance Quotes

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

A year already separates us; I don’t want miles between us too.

You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.