Quotes about distance
distance air atmosphere
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it. Vincent Van Gogh
distance emotional effort
Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation. Walter Benjamin
distance peaceful littles
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part. Virginia Woolf
distance science men
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The scientific method ... changes and transforms its object: the procedure can no longer keep its distance from the object. Werner Heisenberg
distance dirty shoes
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance. Samuel Richardson
distance bad-ass used
When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person. Sally Ride
distance organization long
In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations. Virgil Goode
distance thinking discovery
Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses. Wayne Dyer
distance people separation
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now. Van Morrison
distance reality culture
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce. William Greider
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.