Quotes about distance
distance dragons eagles
No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that I only would have done the SLAYER eagle and not the dragons ´coz I like tribals that stand out from a distance. Like you could be a snowblind in the concert and you are still gonna see it. That´s why I like about it. Kerry King
distance home college
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work. Mary Roberts Rinehart
distance long ruins
It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions. Nicholas Sparks
distance book home
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. Martin Lewis Perl
distance philosophy thinking
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These minds hoped to distance themselves from the pernicious vices of a whole way of thinking, but of course at the same time excluded all of its virtues too. Modern abstractivism in its simplex form (which does not preclude a high degree of articulate facility within the ambit of what is preconceived and accepted). Kenny Smith
distance far last looking personal three
So far in the last three meets, he's had personal bests. That's what you're looking for, especially in the distance events.
distance everywhere walking
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
distance instrument layers measures takes time wall
The laser scanner measures the time it takes (to go) from the instrument to the wall. Then it computes the distance between the wall and the layers of paint. Juan Fernandez
distance liberty
To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down. Paul Virilio
distance words-you-say
Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live. Paul Wellstone
distance bridges people
An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others Pope Francis
distance analogies narrative
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. Peter Morgan
distance two way
You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. Paulo Coelho
distance independent sight
Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end. Peter Singer
distance father views
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold
distance men hands
It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line. Pliny the Elder
distance world should
But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it. Pico Iyer
distance doubt safe
No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study. Phillip E. Johnson
distance communication long
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. Mike Fitzpatrick
distance our-world people
There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbours here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy. Moshe Katsav
distance war degrees
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. Philip Caputo
distance men class
High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
distance trying safe
I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance. Terry Pratchett
distance sight agreement
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Ralph Waldo Emerson
distance quality world
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
distance perspective mind
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it. Ram Dass
distance animal body
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. Shoshana Zuboff
distance energy used
I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest Shannon Miller
distance class people
A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold. Lewis Mumford
distance moon self
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun Lewis Thomas
distance years satisfaction
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.
distance ocean inspiration
I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop', but the ship doesn't stop immediately. It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful Leonard Nimoy
distance men naked
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti