Quotes about distance
distance people links
That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there? Victor Borge
distance thinking important
I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. Vaclav Havel
distance laughing perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
distance simple people
We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know. Usain Bolt
distance fall numbness
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out of that window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These excercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance. Susanna Kaysen
distance heart partners
Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us. Stephen Levine
distance rain car
Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
distance procrastination grace
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late. Sophie Swetchine
distance taken thinking
Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away. Soren Kierkegaard
distance greatness yesterday
It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.
distance boss needs
Then something occurred to me. "Get closer," I told Blackjack. He whinnied in protest. "Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to the statue." Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, Blackjack said Rick Riordan
distance
You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. Tamora Pierce
distance thinking wish
When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop. Tablo
distance men sight
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all. Sylvia Plath
distance ocean blood
Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance. Swami Vivekananda
distance self perspective
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective. Rollo May
distance two lust
Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless! Rumi
distance moon cities
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella. Tom Robbins
distance perspective personality
Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.
distance book flight
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy. Steve Fossett
distance dirty fog
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live. Steve Almond
distance bars love-your-family
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars. Stephan Pastis
distance power sight
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. Stendhal
distance eyebrows years
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
distance order two
Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does. Stanley Elkin
distance past yield
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. Sigmund Freud
distance ocean moving
We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved. Shirley Jackson
distance looks manage
You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that. Steven Morrissey
distance two unification-church
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. Sun Myung Moon
distance army people
To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished. Sun Tzu
distance enemy victory
Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.
distance bridges risk
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven. Sue Miller
distance persons
The distance between yourself and another person is the same as the distance between yourself and yourself. Richard Moss