The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed. - Ilse Aichinger He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope. - Veronica Roth I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored -- for good, I hope. - Veronica Roth You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. - Paulo Coelho In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time th...

Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.(Shakespeare) Present, I fled him. But no matter the distance between us, I kept coming back to him. It all kept coming back to him. - Cora Carmack When you're different, on the down side, you learn to live from one scarce rich moment to the next, no matter the distance between. - Chris Crutcher

I nudged my head into his shoulder. "Thanks for offering to come over." "you realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you," he said. "i guess?" i said. "all efforts to save me from you will fail," he said. - John Green You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, he said. - John Green You can help each other, Max, said the unwelcome voice. You're perfect complements to each other. "Shut up!" I hissed under my breath, and Dylan looked startled. "I didn't say anything." Gritting my teeth, I nodded. "No, I know. It's just-" I decided to take a risk and stare him down. "I hear voices, okay? If you're gonna be here, get used to it. Or else keep your distance. - James Patterson Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even ...

Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved. - Cassandra Clare Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love... - Sarah Addison Allen Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds. - Melina Marchetta Out in the distance I could hear an animal wailing as though the air curled around the sound and flipped it around. - Denise Baer For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for...

I watched that plant in the office every day. Watered it; misted it. I loved thinking about it like G.T. said, but part of me was worried the tree surgery wouldn't take. Something would go wrong and then Id be stuck with a metaphor that couldn't go the distance. - Joan Bauer I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. - Patricia Clarkson You can't go the distance with too much resistance - Billy Joel People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you. - Miranda July The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long. - Payne Stewart

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks. - Andre Agassi Eve grew uneasy. She had to tell Beckett there was another wedding to attend from a distance. Blake had refused to appoint anyone else as best man. He said it was Beckett's place, whether he filled it or not. Cole would officiate. - Debra Anastasia Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less. - Maya Angelou Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how fa...

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. - Alberto Juantorena My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. - Bill Rodgers Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop! - Keith Urban

I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter. - Carrie Jones We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. - Alberto Juantorena My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. - Bill Rodgers The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal. - George A Sheehan Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop! - Keith Urban

He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope. - Veronica Roth I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored -- for good, I hope. - Veronica Roth He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating. - Jodi Picoult Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.(Shakespeare) Present, I fled him. But no matter the distance between us, I kept coming back to him. It all kept coming back to him. - Cora Carmack Trent, do you have any weapons? Like a gun?" He looked at me in disgust. "You're here to protect me," he said as he closed the distance between us and stood beside me. "You didn't bring a weapon?" "Yeah, I brought...