Distance Quotes

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?

I’ve found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person.

I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.

So from the first novel I’ve been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don’t try to protect them in ways that aren’t good for the story.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose,