Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot… — Andre Gide
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so… — John O'Donohue
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… — Michael Ondaatje
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close? — Thomas Hardy
Distance lends enchantment to the view. — Mark Twain
You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. — Tamora Pierce
Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and… — Robert Penn Warren
She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there… — Marilynne Robinson
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the… — Tom Perrotta
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they… — Shane Claiborne
What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or… — Michael Ende
…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable… — Sheldon Vanauken
Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't… — Unknown Author
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and… — George Orwell
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. — Lisa Kleypas
But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe… — Robert Fulghum
We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in… — Shirley Jackson
Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen… — Scott Westerfeld
you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more… — Charlotte Bronte
There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The… — N. Scott Momaday
The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing… — George A. Sheehan
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human… — Albert Einstein
How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her? — Steve Martin
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. — Jonathan Swift

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