Quotes about distance
distance space imagination
Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up. Glen Hansard
distance tolerance world
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it. Martin Jacques
distance book home
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. Martin Lewis Perl
distance doctors hands
I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment. Ned Vizzini
distance simple curves
I like using LEGO bricks as a medium because I enjoy seeing people’s reaction to artwork created from something with which they are familiar. …My goal is to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before. I also appreciate the cleanliness of the LEGO® brick. The right angles. The distinct lines. But, from a distance, those right angles and distinct lines offer new perspectives, changing to curves. Nathan Sawaya
distance shoes world
our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes. Naomi Shihab Nye
distance views cities
I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty. Mireille Guiliano
distance goal long
Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality. Pratibha Patil
distance storm world
A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. Nelson Mandela
distance
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. Jean de La Fontaine
distance ocean sharks
Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start. Gretel Ehrlich
distance years people
Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance. Graham Joyce
distance eye thinking
When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! Gisele Bundchen
distance law fundamentals
If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics. Harriet Lerner
distance cat thinking
The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.
distance quite separated
It's quite a distance for people. They may not want to be separated that long from their families, Some may say they don't want to go back.
distance likely offer striking within
The offer is very rich, so it's likely J&J won't be able to come within striking distance of it. John Chen
distance instrument layers measures takes time wall
The laser scanner measures the time it takes (to go) from the instrument to the wall. Then it computes the distance between the wall and the layers of paint. Juan Fernandez
distance double endlessly kyle riff
I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.
distance glad
I'm glad it just had the distance and I got it there. I'm still in a daze. It's unbelievable.
distance helped period played saves second
Tapper played well when he had to play well. He made some point-blank saves in the second period and that helped us put some distance between us and them.
distance explore great people stores sunday time walking west within
Sunday afternoons are a great time to get people to explore West Atlantic. There are new stores and restaurants all within walking distance of the library.
distance farther finishing later move race run
I want to see her finishing the race so that we can move farther later on. I don't think the distance is ideal. We want to run longer.
distances driving dropping everybody gas great help lots motivation pay pumped responsibility volunteers
Everybody was pumped up the first week. We had lots of volunteers in the beginning. Now the sense of dropping everything to come help is not as great as at the beginning. Volunteers are driving great distances and having to pay their own gas and tolls. I don't think it's our responsibility to give, give, give and not see motivation on the evacuees' level.
distance love teammates
I told her teammates to love her. But to love her from a distance right now.
distance driving ideal immediate within
It's an ideal location, within driving distance of Washington, yet removed from the immediate area. Chris Connelly
distance easier greater kinds means weather
They will be a lot brighter, which means they'll be easier to see and at a greater distance in all kinds of weather conditions.
distance easy game guys passing running time touch
It makes it easy in the passing game when you have guys like (our running backs) who can go the distance every time they touch it. Robert Johnson
distance short
It's a very short distance into the first turn,
distance heart home
What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.
distance moving sight
It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone. Rainer Maria Rilke
distance eye wind
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
distance twilight people
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.