#distance

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now. ↗

— Van Morrison

#i #more #now #people #playing

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#between #billions #border #border security #congress

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

— Jean Paul

#distance #gray #heads #like #look

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#beset #channel #conjecture #distance #explore

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#compare #correction #distance #earthquakes #i

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#although #conditions #depends #distance #fall

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#distance #enough #guess #included #many

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do. ↗

— George Linnaeus Banks

#cause #distance #future #good #i

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#chips #considered #count #distance #eat

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#distance #doubt #everything #follows #god