Quotes about distance
distance four fulfill michigan offer order remaining states study work
We will study the order when it is issued, we will work vigorously to fulfill any remaining requirements and then we'll re-file to offer long distance in Michigan as well as four other states we serve.
distance simple imagination
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination. Douglas Adams
distance night sky
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless
distance lying science
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
distance war world
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. Doris Lessing
distance writing people
The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.
distance events growing
Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away. Donna Tartt
distance america leader
I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation. Colin Powell
distance party mind
It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president. Claire McCaskill
distance moving journey
Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them. Claude Levi-Strauss
distance believe long
I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick. Adam Ferrara
distance life-is shame
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. Adam Duritz
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
distance space mind
Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. Abraham Lincoln
distance mean people
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty. Alexander Hamilton
distance home two
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. Aleksandar Hemon
distance mean thinking
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. Alejandro Amenabar
distance middle made
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. Alberto Juantorena
distance fall confusion
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. Alberto Giacometti
distance thinking space
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately. Albert Einstein
distance men order
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. Alfred Noyes
distance sky sea
There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
distance self growth
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject. Alexander Fleming
distance eye order
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. Aldous Huxley
distance men sitting-still
It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
distance believe reality
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].
distance believe lines
Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
distance men sight
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A government continually at a distance and out of sight, can hardly be expected to interest the sensations of the people. The inference is, that the authority of the Union, and the affections of the citizens towards it, will be strengthened rather than weakened by its extension to what are called matters of internal concern.
distance gentleman ears
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. E. M. Forster
distance thinking winning
Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Drew Brees
distance long affair
I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs. Drew Barrymore