Quotes about distance
distance doors hamper inspired longer open people sharing works
As educators, we are inspired by the possibility of sharing these important works with people around the globe. Think of the doors it will open for students; geographical distance will no longer hamper research.
distance improve main
Right now the main thing is to concentrate on the little things. She's not going to improve on this distance every meet.
distance enable face history nobody perhaps time
Perhaps history and distance and time enable us to face things that nobody particularly wanted to look at at the time, but it's very important that all of this be known. How did this happen? Joseph Kanon
distance dwelling forget jeff joe master rather seen timing
Rather than dwelling on what Jeff didn't do in the ring, I'd like to dwell on what Joe did. He was a master of distance and timing tonight. I've never seen a better performance, even by an American boxer, forget about Britain.
distance game great traveled
(Southern Wayne) traveled a great distance to come here and play us. So we wanted to give them as competitive a game as possible.
distance glitter three
So that when you look from a distance you see glitter from all three sides, not just the top.
distance good growing junior miles potential runners running start
A lot of these long distance runners start out at junior high. They have just as good times but they're also running 80 miles a week. So you see a lot of potential in someone who is running 20 miles a week. You see a lot of growing potential.
distance high improve mostly noticed recruit room
They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot of room to improve once I get to college.
distances farther
This is an important race. Do we go farther distances or shorten up?
distance men hands
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory. Ryszard Kapuscinski
distance book hero
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero! Romain Rolland
distance heart looks
Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear. Rumi
distance light knows
From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.
distance journey men
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable. Rory Stewart
distance rain kids
When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time. Susan Orlean
distance practice half
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound. Steve Carlton
distance war degrees
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. Philip Caputo
distance men class
High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
distance reality myth
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved. Peter Brook
distance practice way
One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively. Pema Chodron
distance land acres
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with. Peter Sarsgaard
distance home loss
The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss. Pete Sampras
distance thinking profound
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
distance two use
I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip. Philip Pullman
distance eye soul
From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening. Rachel Cohn
distance adventure wings
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. Rabindranath Tagore
distance love-you world
The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.
distance sight agreement
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Ralph Waldo Emerson
distance quality world
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
distance perspective mind
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it. Ram Dass
distance animal body
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. Shoshana Zuboff
distance energy used
I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest Shannon Miller
distance class people
A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold. Lewis Mumford