Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.

(Southern Wayne) traveled a great distance to come here and play us. So we wanted to give them as competitive a game as possible.

So that when you look from a distance you see glitter from all three sides, not just the top.

I wanted to be tested over the full championship distance and I felt fine in the later rounds.

Teams don't know he has NBA range. Ryan's got no limits for distance on his 3's.

Right now the main thing is to concentrate on the little things. She's not going to improve on this distance every meet.

Joseph Kanon

Perhaps history and distance and time enable us to face things that nobody particularly wanted to look at at the time, but it's very important that all of this be known. How did this happen?

Rather than dwelling on what Jeff didn't do in the ring, I'd like to dwell on what Joe did. He was a master of distance and timing tonight. I've never seen a better performance, even by an American boxer, forget about Britain.

I've only had two other guys in 28 years go that fast as freshmen. Our distance runners had a nice night. They are seeing progress from some of the hard work we have done.

They all contributed and we have put ourselves within striking distance heading into the final round, which was our goal.

That's not the way you distinguish someone's politics. It forces us to distance ourselves from him.

Barbara Mertz

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

Daniel Goleman

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Charles Darwin

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.

What we lost to graduation we gained with new girls. Our distance team could score more points this year with who we have.

bell hooks

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Craig Ferguson

Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

Brennan Manning

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Edmund Burke

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

Elif Safak

Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

The extra distance is going to help him, too. It could be a hot pace.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?

Dave Mustaine

Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.

Gary Larson

Even if today all the people they want to talk to are a short distance away, in the future that may not be the case.

easier to move, harder to find, more lethal, able to strike long distances in short times.

We wanted to show everyone that the distance program is back at Texas. This is our big home meet so we felt like we had to win at least one of these relays.

Charles Schumer

At the hearings, I gave Judge Roberts every opportunity to distance himself from Justice Thomas's most extreme views, ... He refused.

This turned out to be a logistical nightmare because of the distance of the destruction.

Thomas Hardy

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

William Collins

With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.

There was a lot of great performances in the distance group. It was a much better showing than in the Danville meet (on Monday).