#distance

I don't cry because we've been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we're still together. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#long-distance-love #long-distance-relationships #love

... I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last... -Adrienne (on telling her daughter about Paul) ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love

Even though I always came back, he said he was always watching me leave. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#leave #leaving #long-distance-love #love #relationships

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ↗

— Edward Albee

#come #correctly #distance #go #long

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#approach #around #box #box office #business

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#behavior #between #distance #me #other

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. ↗

— Susie Bright

#before #christian #criticism #distance #morality

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#clearly #dimly #distance #hand #lies

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' ↗

— David Byrne

#call #civic #distance #doing #engagement

People are trading distance for dollars. ↗

— Ray Brown

#dollars #people #trading