Quotes about distance
distance men world
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm. Charles Caleb Colton
distance character order
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.
distance knees remember
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor. Charles Stanley
distance lying night
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth. Charles Spurgeon
distance men law
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
distance home house
The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.
distance reality love-is
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment. Alan Ball
distance joy mind
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance Akhenaton
distance book writing
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years. Aiden Wilson Tozer
distance small-moments looks
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed. Chris Bohjalian
distance thinking white
All power within the microcosm of my world was held and wielded by people who look like me. Plus, I think Nigerians all have this sense that they are better than everyone, including white people. So I have the privilege of a certain distance. It may just be that. So in a sense, I can't claim that as any ability that I have, simply a matter of circumstance. Chris Abani
distance journey practice
Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs ... Chogyam Trungpa
distance rumor matter
I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor. David Shields
distance america people
One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?" David Sedaris
distance cities profound
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.
distance flower years
A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ. Dave Barry
distance mean one-day
[I]f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere. David Suzuki
distance ideas realization
Research: the distance between an idea and its realization. David Sarnoff
distance mistake ignorance
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. Carl Sagan
distance eye fantasy
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us. Caspar David Friedrich
distance dedication long
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication. Casey Kasem
distance reading dedication
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.
distance thinking cattle
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. Carl Hiaasen
distance finishing
We are at some distance from effectively finishing the task. Donald Rumsfeld
distance interested lacking last
We're interested to see how she can do. We've been lacking in distance the last two years.
distance lying sleep
...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another... Jose Saramago
distance home eye
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values. Charles Lindbergh
distance wind weather
Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.
distance life-is-like landscape
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
distance practice long
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans. Bob Woodward
distance resistance too-much
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance Billy Joel
distance night long
Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
distance athlete drug
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. Bill Rodgers