Explore Quotes on Distance

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.

First of all, when the guy controls the distance the way Conor controls the distance, it's not easy to take the guy down. Another thing that people don't realize is those guys that kick a lot, they develop a lot of power in the hips so those hips are very flexible and very strong.

I would prefer to keep my distance a bit from the cameras. I want to keep a private life.

In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with going the distance in the fight than going out and taking Holmes out.

Music is one of the toughest industries, so I respect everybody who has travelled any distance, come far in this music business and achieved anything because it is so hard, and there are so many people out there these days.

When a ball is struck with more velocity and at the right angle to create the most distance, you end up with a bomb.

I had zero exposure to creative in WCW up until 1993, 1994. Even then, I was at a distance.

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

I run at least five miles a day, just long distance.

Slow-twitch muscle fibers are mostly used for long endurance exercises like aerobics, swimming, and distance running. Fast-twitch muscle fibers are generally more powerful and are activated during maximum exertion exercises like heavy weightlifting and intensive, short bursts of sprints.

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.

I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

For a number of years, I struggled and put distance between God and me. But He was faithful and patient and provided gradual healing and strength.

As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

I can close the distance on anyone.

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.

You go the whole distance as a player, the last thing you probably want is the coach to say, 'Okay, you've gone this far, I'm going to take you out.'

I could never be a distance runner, because I can't run for more than ten minutes. There aren't enough iPod gigabytes in the world to make that worth it for me.