Quotes about distance
distance eye wind
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces. Rainer Maria Rilke
distance twilight people
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.
distance people outcast
Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED. Shane Koyczan
distance creating community
That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community. Shane Claiborne
distance goal long
We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal. Serena Williams
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 progress littles
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. John Donne
distance ideas feelings
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself. John O'Donohue
distance men discovery
Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper. John Aubrey
distance guitar two
There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement. Jimmy Page
distance littles bigger
Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. Lois Lowry
distance science two
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Madeleine L'Engle
distance soul christ
Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes. John Flavel
distance
The profoundest distances are never geographical. John Fowles
distance body function
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself. Leon Battista Alberti
distance eye men
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320 Leo Tolstoy
distance golf clubs
The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all. Leslie Nielsen
distance self overcoming
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others. Leo Buscaglia
distance golf long
I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it. Lee Trevino
distance land want
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know. Lawrence Kasdan
distance cancer benches
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened. Larry Lucchino
distance crowds knows
I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for. Levon Helm
distance reflection self
I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self. Lewis H. Lapham
distance cities america
Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.
distance two people
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity. Lewis Black
distance father son
The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings. John Locke
distance sound heard
How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance. John Banville
distance moon space
We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself. Jim Lovell
distance influence
'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence. Jim Rohn