Quotes about distance
distance heart looks
Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear. Rumi
distance light knows
From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.
distance thinking sky
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir
distance love-is agony
Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed. Simone Weil
distance soul
Distance is the soul of beauty.
distance sin wrong-direction
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
distance bigs big-picture
The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time. Simon Sinek
distance future airplane
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be. Simon Newcomb
distance long walking
Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time. Steven Wright
distance details gazing
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. Steven Saylor
distance energy used
I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest Shannon Miller
distance class people
A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold. Lewis Mumford
distance moon self
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun Lewis Thomas
distance years satisfaction
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.
distance ocean inspiration
I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop', but the ship doesn't stop immediately. It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful Leonard Nimoy
distance men naked
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
distance reality lasts
Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime. Laura Schlessinger
distance mean magic
The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it. Neil Postman
distance endurance lasts
You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last. Neil Peart
distance cat self
My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves. Marc Maron
distance book feel-better
The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.
distance moving technology
It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble. Marc Forster
distance party phones
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away. Marc Andreessen
distance lying gossip
Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence. Thomas a Kempis
distance wish world
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. Sharon Olds
distance past yield
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. Sigmund Freud
distance ocean moving
We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved. Shirley Jackson
distance looks manage
You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that. Steven Morrissey
distance two unification-church
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. Sun Myung Moon
distance army people
To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished. Sun Tzu
distance enemy victory
Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.
distance bridges risk
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven. Sue Miller
distance persons
The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself. Richard Moss