Quotes about distance
distance land australia
I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. Henry Rollins
distance unique creating
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance. Helmut Jahn
distance ambition successful
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide. Henry David Thoreau
distance lying moving
The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away. Manmohan Singh
distance mean squares
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. Johannes Kepler
distance would-be earth
But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.
distance fall moon
If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.
distance sometimes absence
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
distance cities two
The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things James Howard Kunstler
distance body
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. James Joyce
distance intuition vision
We're finally becoming aware of a process that has been unconscious since human experience began. From the start, humans have perceived a Birth Vision, and then after birth have gone unconscious, aware of only the vaguest of intuitions. At first in the early day of human history, the distance between what we intended and what we actually accomplished was very great, and then, over time, the distance has closed. Now we're the verge of remembering everything. James Redfield
distance men judging
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. Laurence J. Peter
distance fighting talking
When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt. Larry Holmes
distance reality men
It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds. Lord Acton
distance long-distance long
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. Luis Miguel
distance fall sea
All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us. John Cheever
distance father people
The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people...well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that. John Boyne
distance huge junior race runners top
The junior race is pretty much all the top junior runners in the world. It's a huge distance event.
distance excited girls good missed opportunity playing program quarter shots third tournament
The girls were really excited for the opportunity (playing for the title). We went back a lot of years in the program and we couldn't ever find us playing for an in-season tournament championship anywhere. We had a real good idea what Marquette was going to do. I don't know if it was fatigue, but we just missed some shots in the third quarter and let them get a little distance between them and us.
distance earth equivalent
This is a long way off, equivalent to two thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
distance war battle
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. Napoleon Bonaparte
distance father home
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house. Os Guinness
distance two perfect
The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. Orlando Aloysius Battista
distance reality artist
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates. Olafur Eliasson
distance people mountain
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic. Novalis
distance passion light
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance. Ellen Glasgow
distance technology giving
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. Emily Greene Balch
distances driving dropping everybody gas great help lots motivation pay pumped responsibility volunteers
Everybody was pumped up the first week. We had lots of volunteers in the beginning. Now the sense of dropping everything to come help is not as great as at the beginning. Volunteers are driving great distances and having to pay their own gas and tolls. I don't think it's our responsibility to give, give, give and not see motivation on the evacuees' level.
distance farther finishing later move race run
I want to see her finishing the race so that we can move farther later on. I don't think the distance is ideal. We want to run longer.
distance short
It's a very short distance into the first turn,
distance quite separated
It's quite a distance for people. They may not want to be separated that long from their families, Some may say they don't want to go back.
distance likely offer striking within
The offer is very rich, so it's likely J&J won't be able to come within striking distance of it. John Chen
distance gave himself leader runner sees team ton
That (last season) strengthened him as a leader for the team and gave him a ton of confidence. He sees himself as a distance runner now. That's his identity.