Quotes about distance
distance taken self
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance. Seamus Heaney
distance believe scotland
I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality. Sean Connery
distance firsts remember
For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place. Michelle Gomez
distance cities long
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce. Michael Pollan
distance night discovery
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
distance strangers-and-friends people
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own, Scott Simon
distance long people
People are trading distance for dollars. Ray Brown
distance ingredients ideology
The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology. Slavoj Zizek
distance native-american white
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.
distance love-is thinking
I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving. Simon Van Booy
distance imagination use
It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance. Sofia Coppola
distance men play
To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance Michelle Wie
distance heart dark
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee. John Owen
distance space generosity
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance. Norman Foster
distance believe space
I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther out in space than you were before, either technologically or in terms of distance. Neil deGrasse Tyson
distance people loathing
Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. Nick Clegg
distance struggle book
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really. Nicholson Baker
distance color faces
I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. “Why? Why am I the one?” “Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it. Nora Roberts
distance moving sea
We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed. Nikola Tesla
distance sight perception
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.
distance spheres influence
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
distance relevant sensational
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
distance stature
The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see. N. Scott Momaday
distance mouths action
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. Mort Sahl
distance car lines
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. Marilyn vos Savant
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