Quotes about distance
distance lying two
Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay. Maya Angelou
distance car lines
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. Marilyn vos Savant
distance party winning
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness. Mary Frances Berry
distance thinking would-be
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. Patricia Clarkson
distance rain silence
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout. Pablo Neruda
distance singing
In the distance someone is singing.
distance conditions
Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike. Plato
distance white clouds
My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud. Philip Larkin
distance thinking people
There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well. Mary Ellen Mark
distance water long
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you. Leonardo da Vinci
distance kids grandparent
When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic. Lance Henriksen
distance weak gravity
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak. Lisa Randall
distance grief feelings
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. Lisa Kleypas
distance political may
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time. John Ralston Saul
distance block years
The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald. John Piper
distance too-much damage
It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it. Nicole Kidman
distance classroom campus
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. Peter Drucker
distance awards years
I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years. Marlee Matlin
distance impossible negotiation
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. Mariano Rajoy
distance people realization
I've come to the realization that if I don't feel like sharing, then I'm just not going to share. But I'm not going to go out of my way to mislead people or keep them at a distance, because that doesn't really get me anywhere either. Megan Fox
distance want littles
You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection. Nicolas Ghesquiere
distance people loathing
Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. Nick Clegg
distance struggle book
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really. Nicholson Baker
distance color faces
I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. “Why? Why am I the one?” “Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it. Nora Roberts
distance moving sea
We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed. Nikola Tesla
distance sight perception
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.
distance spheres influence
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
distance relevant sensational
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
distance stature
The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see. N. Scott Momaday
distance mouths action
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. Mort Sahl
distance empowerment cinema
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus. Michael Haneke
distance dignity
No dignity without distance. Mason Cooley
distance shopping safe
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. Mary Augusta Ward