Quotes about distance
distance character important
I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you. Morgan Saylor
distance ocean writing
I was in England, Osho was in India - both of us separated by oceans and continents - yet I understood time and distance made no difference in my connection with him. Days later, I arrived in Bombay and was soon at it again, writing fresh questions, and trying to provoke that divine smile. Touché! Milarepa
distance teenager college
Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves. Mara Wilson
distance circles sound
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. Joseph Addison
distance tired sight
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
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 desire examination
Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along. George Armstrong Custer
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 lying moving
The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away. Manmohan Singh
distance mean squares
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. Johannes Kepler
distance would-be earth
But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.
distance fall moon
If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.
distance excited girls good missed opportunity playing program quarter shots third tournament
The girls were really excited for the opportunity (playing for the title). We went back a lot of years in the program and we couldn't ever find us playing for an in-season tournament championship anywhere. We had a real good idea what Marquette was going to do. I don't know if it was fatigue, but we just missed some shots in the third quarter and let them get a little distance between them and us.
distance earth equivalent
This is a long way off, equivalent to two thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
distance reality men
It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds. Lord Acton
distance long-distance long
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. Luis Miguel
distance fall sea
All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us. John Cheever
distance father people
The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people...well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that. John Boyne