Quotes about distance
distance feminist leader
Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation. Elif Safak
distance skills luck
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape. Eliezer Yudkowsky
distance moon animal
There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water. Democritus
distance dust sea
This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination. Denis Johnson
distance admiration promoters
Distance is a great promoter of admiration Denis Diderot
distance sky earth
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
distance goal mind
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal. Edgar Allan Poe
distance voice clouds
Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?
distance kids work-out
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass. Edward Abbey
distance interesting forever
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. … To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
distance goal way
That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. (Travel over any finite distance can neither be completed nor begun, and so all motion must be an illusion.) Aristotle
distance far hard horse run running seven step toughest work
Seven furlongs is, maybe, the toughest distance because you have to run hard every step of the way. I like to try and work a horse that far before running him.
distance impressed natural truly
She truly is a jumper. I am really impressed with her distance without the practice. I know she is just a natural athlete.
distance trying zips
Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes. Dave Mustaine
distance mean writing
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between. Aaron Hill
distance honor observe people rules
There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance Victor Hugo
distance drifted expect found people places quite search
She could be a lot of places right now, it could be a very big search area. We have found people before that have drifted quite a distance out here, places where you just wouldn't expect them to be, and it's never been surefire.
distance events middle surprise
She has been a surprise in the middle distance and distance events.
distance nearly news short spot whatsoever
She disappeared at a spot just a short distance from our home. We had no news whatsoever about her for nearly 20 years.
distance informed level line needs script sort walk
She maintains that sort of distance, and I think that's the kind of distance one needs to walk that line with that humor. So the script is informed on every level by it.
distances dreams dynamism jacket man marriage marriages time travel travels
'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty. Adam Ross
distance years pie
Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims. Craig Ferguson
distance sadness intuition
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. Clarice Lispector
distance way los-angeles
I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker! Ashley Jensen
distance writing intellectual
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. Bruce Sterling
distance two parent
I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents. Jane Wagner
distance gained graduation lost points score team year
What we lost to graduation we gained with new girls. Our distance team could score more points this year with who we have.
distance two unbearable
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. Charles Bukowski
distance happens human maybe proper special stems type
I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star. Alex Honnold
distance fathers firmly follow near remain thy
From near thy vicinity, from near thy distance (do I call), remain here, do not follow; do not follow the Fathers of yore! Firmly do I fasten thy life's breath.
distance helps
I think it makes a big difference. Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.
distance helps
I think it makes a big difference, ... Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.
distance saw smiling
I saw him from a distance out there and he was smiling and strutting. Paul Casey