#distance

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#closer #distance #greater #look #looks

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#distance #marathon #other #run #runners

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

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line. ↗

— John Byng

#enemy #engage #form #going #great

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#dimensions #distance #itself #largely #maintained

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#band #being #distance #due #feelings

There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance. ↗

— Chuck Daly

#distance #go #involved #like #nothing

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. ↗

— Michael Korda

#always #been #between #distance #easy

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#behind #deadline #defeat #distance #every