Quotes about distance
distance missing gone
How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her? Steve Martin
distance bars love-your-family
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars. Stephan Pastis
distance power sight
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. Stendhal
distance eyebrows years
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
distance order two
Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does. Stanley Elkin
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 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 dark light
Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness. Robert Bresson
distance golf clubs
They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it. Tommy Bolt
distance golf broken
I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.
distance arrows greek
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright. Tom Stoppard
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 people links
That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there? Victor Borge
distance moving airplane
He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection. Richard Bach
distance believe home
But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. And you're damned right that's idealistic. No apology. When idealism goes into the trash as junk mail, we're finished. Robert Fulghum
distance years people
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people. Robert Bly
distance two lust
Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless! Rumi
distance moon cities
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella. Tom Robbins
distance perspective personality
Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.
distance book flight
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy. Steve Fossett
distance dirty fog
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live. Steve Almond
distance thinking important
I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. Vaclav Havel
distance laughing perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
distance simple people
We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know. Usain Bolt
distance fall numbness
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out of that window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These excercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance. Susanna Kaysen
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