Quotes about distance
distance seems
Everything seems simpler from a distance. Gail Tsukiyama
distance men wish
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish. George Edward Moore
distance doors silence
We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains! Federico Garcia Lorca
distance love-is atmosphere
I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body. Fanny Kemble
distance believe needs
I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other. Eve Ensler
distance eye men
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back. Francis Bacon
distance felt fine full later tested
I wanted to be tested over the full championship distance and I felt fine in the later rounds.
distance met perspective relaxed since therefore
I'm more relaxed since I met Vanessa, I have more distance and therefore I have more perspective, Johnny Depp
distance space ugly
Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time. Henry Miller
distance men squares
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. George Eliot
distance eye people
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ...
distance flying
Anything flying that distance should have a pilot.
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 hate work-out
I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese. Jason Isaacs
distance people feelings
Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance. Jarvis Cocker
distance mirrors bmw
I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. Not necessary. Ranger says the car has sensors." Ranger give you a car with bomb sensors? The head of the CIA don't even have a car with bomb sensors. I hear they give him a stick with a mirror on the end of it. Janet Evanovich
distance moving kissing
Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron. Erin Morgenstern
distance editors patient
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy. Jason Epstein
distance goal mountain
One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal. Cassandra Clare
distance men brave
Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values. Muriel Rukeyser
distance mean eye
Karrin smiled faintly and shook her head. "He always said you knew ghosts. You're sure it was really him?" Mort eyed her. "Me and everyone else, yeah." Karrin scowled and stared into the middle distance. Mort frowned and then his expression softened. "You didn't want it to be his ghost. Did you?" Murphy shook her head slowly, but said nothing. "You needed everyone to be wrong about it. Because if it really was his ghost," Mort said, "it means that he really is dead." Murphy's face...just crumpled. Her eyes overflowed and she bowed her head. Her body shook in silence. Jim Butcher
distance may apocalypse
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. H. G. Wells
distance greatness envy
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. George Herbert
distance lying names
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us. Jean de la Bruyere
distance spy use
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion Jean Baudrillard