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I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...
One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.
I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.
When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.
Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, 'yaassssss.'
I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.
Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.
I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.
You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.
I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.
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.
This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.
You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.
I've had fantasies in the past of walking across America or some great distance, but it's such a commitment of time that it's stopped me.