Quotes about distance
distance eye past
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near. Andre Gide
distance thinking pieces
I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is. Ang Lee
distance
Never in history has distance meant less. Alvin Toffler
distance insomnia far-away
This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you Chuck Palahniuk
distance book mean
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing. Chuck Klosterman
distance book thinking
I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.
distance party home
Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way. Christopher Walken
distance play people
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
distance hands opposites
and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off. Annie Proulx
distance world another-world
I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world. Andreas Gursky
distance past comfort
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. Amy Bloom
distance frustrated stories
A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.' Anthony de Mello
distance sun doe
Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
distance stories humans
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
distance names always-trying
Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Anna Deavere Smith
distance believe humility
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe. Andrew Sullivan
distance romantic-love space
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.
distance rich poor
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep. Ambrose Bierce
distance technology devil
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
distance long people
I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance. Anthony Hopkins
distance way intention
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions. Anthony Kiedis
distance years games
I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.
distance long waiting
No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting .. Alicia Keys
distance ignorance thinking
I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. Alice Sebold
distance technology technological-change
Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world. Andy Grove
distance thinking glasses
Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?' 'She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family. Ally Carter
distance taken someday
He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore. Ann Brashares
distances next official results send until wait
We couldn't get all our times or distances in some of the events. We will have to wait until they send us the official results next week.
distance easier groups negative others positive social spin ways
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own. Daniel Goleman
distance motive pride-and-prejudice-pride
The distance is nothing when one has a motive. Jane Austen
distance land cottages
I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.
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 lends robes tis
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thomas Campbell