Quotes about distance
distance political fields
Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. Thomas Friedman
distance phones differences
There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.
distance fall sins-not
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit. Thomas Brooks
distance shopping two
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke. Victoria Moran
distance believe convenience
I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.
distance feelings detachment
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings. Victor Garber
distance quality range
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. Victor Hugo
distance men hands
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory. Ryszard Kapuscinski
distance book hero
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero! Romain Rolland
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 journey men
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable. Rory Stewart
distance rain kids
When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time. Susan Orlean
distance practice half
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound. Steve Carlton
distance war degrees
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. Philip Caputo
distance men class
High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
distance reality myth
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved. Peter Brook
distance practice way
One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively. Pema Chodron
distance land acres
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with. Peter Sarsgaard
distance home loss
The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss. Pete Sampras
distance thinking profound
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
distance two use
I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip. Philip Pullman
distance eye soul
From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening. Rachel Cohn
distance adventure wings
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. Rabindranath Tagore
distance love-you world
The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.
distance sight agreement
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Ralph Waldo Emerson
distance quality world
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
distance perspective mind
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it. Ram Dass
distance animal body
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. Shoshana Zuboff
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.