Quotes about distance
distance two people
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points. Theodor Adorno
distance people elimination
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
distance home one-direction
Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home. Michael Flynn
distance exercise science
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance. Michael Faraday
distance love-you sleep
But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall . . ." She faltered. "Love you from a safe distance," he finished. "Yes. Melissa Marr
distance book self
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it. Michael Ondaatje
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 years long
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired. Jacky Ickx
distance safe failing
We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail. Henry Rollins
distance empathy way
When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.
distance band bad-seed
The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
distance land australia
I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.
distance unique creating
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance. Helmut Jahn
distance ambition successful
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide. Henry David Thoreau
distance party winning
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness. Mary Frances Berry
distance thinking would-be
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. Patricia Clarkson
distance rain silence
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout. Pablo Neruda
distance singing
In the distance someone is singing.
distance conditions
Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike. Plato
distance white clouds
My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud. Philip Larkin
distance thinking people
There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well. Mary Ellen Mark
distance water long
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you. Leonardo da Vinci
distance kids grandparent
When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic. Lance Henriksen
distance weak gravity
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak. Lisa Randall
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