Quotes about distance
distance grief feelings
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. Lisa Kleypas
distance political may
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time. John Ralston Saul
distance sometimes absence
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
distance cities two
The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things James Howard Kunstler
distance body
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. James Joyce
distance intuition vision
We're finally becoming aware of a process that has been unconscious since human experience began. From the start, humans have perceived a Birth Vision, and then after birth have gone unconscious, aware of only the vaguest of intuitions. At first in the early day of human history, the distance between what we intended and what we actually accomplished was very great, and then, over time, the distance has closed. Now we're the verge of remembering everything. James Redfield
distance men judging
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. Laurence J. Peter
distance fighting talking
When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt. Larry Holmes
distance want littles
You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection. Nicolas Ghesquiere
distance people loathing
Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. Nick Clegg
distance struggle book
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really. Nicholson Baker
distance color faces
I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. “Why? Why am I the one?” “Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it. Nora Roberts
distance moving sea
We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed. Nikola Tesla
distance sight perception
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.
distance spheres influence
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
distance relevant sensational
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
distance stature
The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see. N. Scott Momaday
distance mouths action
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. Mort Sahl
distance excited girls good missed opportunity playing program quarter shots third tournament
The girls were really excited for the opportunity (playing for the title). We went back a lot of years in the program and we couldn't ever find us playing for an in-season tournament championship anywhere. We had a real good idea what Marquette was going to do. I don't know if it was fatigue, but we just missed some shots in the third quarter and let them get a little distance between them and us.
distance huge junior race runners top
The junior race is pretty much all the top junior runners in the world. It's a huge distance event.
distance earth equivalent
This is a long way off, equivalent to two thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
distance classroom campus
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. Peter Drucker
distance awards years
I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years. Marlee Matlin
distance impossible negotiation
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. Mariano Rajoy
distance people realization
I've come to the realization that if I don't feel like sharing, then I'm just not going to share. But I'm not going to go out of my way to mislead people or keep them at a distance, because that doesn't really get me anywhere either. Megan Fox
distance space important
I'm not on Twitter. I feel like it has a purpose because there are fans around the world that want to have some sort of interaction with you. But I feel like it is important to still keep some space and some distance, which is why I don't have a Twitter.
distance aging term
Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled... Mavis Gallant
distance eye age
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers. Max Frisch
distance dark israel
The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance. Matthew Henry
distance thinking poison
I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much. Matt McGorry
distance heart differences
The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart. Maya Angelou
distance lying two
Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
distance flying
Anything flying that distance should have a pilot.