#distance

I managed to beat Michael Phelps’ 400 meter IM time. And not only did I beat his time, but I did it in exactly 200 meters.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #compete #competition #competitive #delusional

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#amsterdam #because #flights #fly #flying

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#continent #distance #eyes #hath #knows

The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ↗

— Leo Aikman

#construction #distance #points #shortest #shortest distance

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#distance #erode #like #memories #stones

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#around #becomes #being #between #calls

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#collaboration #distance #even #field #forces

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#anarchy #borders #distance #ethiopia #military

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#distance #landscape #life #like #live

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#because #been #culture #different #different kind