Quotes about distance
distance character past
I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research. Robert Reed
distance mean light
Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality. It is by these means that our lives come to more than what they instrumentally yield. And by meaning more, our lives yield more. Robert Nozick
distance historical likes
The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes. Robert Musil
distance sound moral
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. Rob Thurman
distance order law
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a finite number of logical operations. The present theory of physics is not that way, apparently. It allows space to go down into infinitesimal distances, wavelengths to get infinitely great, terms to be summed in infinite order, and so forth; and therefore, if this proposition [that physics is computer-simulatable] is right, physical law is wrong. Richard P. Feynman
distance moving knowledge
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence ... there is an enormous amount of information about the world. His suggestion that the most valuable information on scientific knowledge in a single sentence using the fewest words is to state the atomic hypothesis.
distance simple fundamentals
There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.
distance loneliness psychics
Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance. Robert M. Pirsig
distance loneliness psychics
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
distance people today
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.
distance book reading
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. Washington Irving
distance moving shadow
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology. William Irwin Thompson
distance culture trials
William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce. William Carey
distance night wind
A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night. William C. Bryant
distance reality space
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance. Walter Isaacson
distance organization israel
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization. Yitzhak Shamir
distance people down-and
You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance. Yitzhak Rabin
distance people strange
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones. Winifred Holtby
distance mean garden
The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes. William Wilson
distance eye ice
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. William Wordsworth
distance degrees offensive
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. William Shenstone
distance technology needs
If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana. William J. Clinton
distance views people
With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it. William Friedkin
distance book cutting
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail. William Gibson
distance philosophy two
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. Will Durant
distance grandmother sky
Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . . Sarah Addison Allen
distance people problem
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. Whitney M. Young
distance thinking views
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. Wislawa Szymborska
distance writing thinking
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance. William Trevor
distance limits horizon
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold. W. Eugene Smith
distance disease certain
Distance is the only cure for certain diseases. Zora Neale Hurston
distance men navy
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
distance insightful bigs
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.