Quotes & Sayings About Distance Ruining Relationships

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. — Lao-Tzu

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die. — Teresa Of Avila

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news. — Ruth Gordon

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you. — Ethel Waters

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. — Rosalind Russell

Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell you that the earth is round like an orange, when you can see perfectly well that it is flat and lumpy; and why they say that the earth goes round the sun, when you can see for yourself any day that the sun gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night like a good sun it is, and the earth knows its place, and lies as still as a mouse. — E. Nesbit

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead. — Attila The Hun

Rainwater purls from cloud to roof to eave. — Anthony Doerr

Spain is an overflow of sombreness ... a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier. — Wyndham Lewis

Yeah," I said. Sometimes I was full of halfhearted yeahs. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I long for
a little life,
an everyday life,
a splash of sunlight
through a window
a smile from a stranger -
a heart to hold in mine. — Menna Van Praag

Oh, silly me. Lottie is Olive's dog. You must have seen her: pretty little black cocker spaniel. Mind you, what Olive's son thought he was doing getting his mother a dog last Christmas, I don't know. Crazy with her health problems; and where is he now? Scarpered off to live in Australia. — Mary Grand

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. — Dick Schaap