A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Graham Greene

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston

Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Oliver Herford

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
Theodore Hesburgh

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
Richard Leakey

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
Jackie Chan

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
Alejandro Amenabar

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
Alfred Noyes

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Charles de Gaulle

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
Marilyn vos Savant

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

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
John James Audubon

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

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Brian Aldiss

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
Bono

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.
Jason Zebehazy

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
Robert Morgan

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair

Do we need distance to get close?
Sarah Jessica Parker