Distance Quotes · Page 53

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

— Jodi Picoult

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“You can feel the distance. It carries a weight that's heavier than anything.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face.…

— Manu Joseph

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

— Isabel Allende

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

— Bob Dylan

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

— Mark Twain

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

— Edward Albee

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up…

— Wangechi Mutu

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

— Ilka Chase

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

— Hugh Elliot

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

— Tacitus

Distance never separates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever…

— Anonymous

It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.

— Christophe Agou

Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions…

— Joan Didion

When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that…

— Brené Brown

The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to…

— Artie Shaw

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

— Constance Baker Motley

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque…

— George Eliot

The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the…

— Dee Dee Ramone

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“A brand-new thought: Transatlantic airmail. She tests the phrase, scratching it out on the paper, over and over, transatlantic, trans atlas, trans…

— Colum McCann