We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Obviously, the 'Glow' show is a real feminist story. I knew it would be about female empowerment, and that was really exciting… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes.… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance. — Vasily Rozanov Copy Share Image
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance,… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“The need of theory is supported by the eros of the philosopher. It is not the expression of his will to conquer… — Heinrich Meier Copy Share Image
London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people. — Virginia Axline Copy Share Image
My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Irremediably, little by little, the distance between them became an insurmountable abyss.” — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as… — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel… — Caster Semenya Copy Share Image
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“If there’s a reason why I keep my distance from God it probably has something to do with the fact that the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
