Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Goleman

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.

Brennan Manning

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Dalai Lama

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

Annie Proulx

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.

Conrad Burns

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

Albert Camus

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Cindy Klassen

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

Herb Sendek

Those are tough shots. It's one thing to make that putt in your office on your carpet. That same distance putt at Augusta's a little tougher.

Sydney Schanberg

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

Gary Kelly

Denver has been a missing link in Southwest's system for too long, and we've known the demand for Southwest Airlines service is strong in Colorado. Today, we're not only celebrating the start of our new service, but we're pleased to announce two new destinations that Southwest Airlines will serve nonstop from Denver International Airport.

Al Goodman

The strike is the first by Iberia's pilot's since it was privatized and the company says the present row could lead to it losing $100m, canceling aircraft orders and cutting jobs.

Nezette Rydell

The taller that storm is, the more air that is rushing up. And as that air rushes up into the storm, it is making those winds turn with height, and that spinning is what causes the tornado vortex that drops down out of the cloud.

Mary Schiavo

The rule of thumb is that aircraft are built for a 20-year economic life. That doesn't mean they fall out of the sky after 20 years. But it does mean they need tender loving care.

Alberto Gonzalez

The station never corroborated that immigration was there. We had phone calls on the air cautioning people that immigration was in Bridgeton and Vineland.

Amrit Sethi

I spent the whole Sunday in the queue for the ticket. I appeal to both countries to relax the visa process. It is a must -- it is more important than opening rail tracks and air and bus links.

Rob Mercer

I see this as a win-win scenario for the airlines, the airports and the customers. Both Air NZ and Qantas gain more from growing traffic on the Tasman into their domestic networks.

Roger Lane

I've deployed elements of 45 Commando group equipped with the full range of combat power by air and by road to close with the enemy and destroy them in an area historically used by the Taliban,

Rogers Johns

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Landon Donovan

The good thing is it's over and it's not like that's going to have ramifications on our season. If anything it will help us. You don't play in games of that intensity and atmosphere but a couple of times a year.

Steve Gregory

The atmosphere that it brings, I really like it a lot,

Lucian Freud

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Michael Specter

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

Karen Thurman

The GOP culture of corruption that has poisoned the atmosphere of Capitol Hill is being cultivated here in Tallahassee.

Alan Furst

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

Corliss Lamont

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.