Quotes about distance
distance history perspective
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. Joseph Joubert
distance easy either period pieces seem
It's very easy to distance yourself from period pieces because either through costuming or whatever, they don't seem to be as much of our time. Carlisle Floyd
distance men wind
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. Hal Borland
distance fall autumn
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
distance eye autumn
The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.
distance profane
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. Horace
distance hate silence
I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]
distance eye interesting
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it. Henry David Thoreau
distance humility cutting
We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.
distance technology use
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy, Jill Tarter
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 men soul
I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. G. M. Trevelyan
distance men people
Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M. George Will
distance destiny people
Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.
distance sorrow black
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Jean Paul
distance way miles
You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.' Jerry Seinfeld
distance character men
Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence
distance knees thrones
God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between! Jim Elliot
distance book feet
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. Jim Bishop
distance achievement population
The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you. Jeff Galloway
distance grief eye
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. James Buchan
distance play world
The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is. James A. Baldwin
distance journey judging
Never judge a journey by the distance... Jacqueline Winspear
distance believe fate
There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so. Jacqueline Carey
distance thought-provoking people
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little. Jacqueline Novogratz
distance america rooms
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great. Gary Shteyngart
distance ocean voice
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
distance believe one-day
I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear. Franz Wright
distance thinking rising
I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape . . . . It makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away it really is a small planet. Frank Borman
distance war moon
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.