Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures… — Gaston Bachelard
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of… — Victor Pelevin
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance… — Mark Doty
When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can… — Nicole Krauss
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two… — Neil Gaiman
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance — Billy Joel
The distance is nothing when one has a motive. — Jane Austen
Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman
The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't… — Bill Bryson
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from… — Muhammad Yunus
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep,… — Beryl Markham
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer
This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way… — Jean Vanier
Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a… — J R Ward
At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing… — Shonda Rhimes
Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard… — Megan Whalen Turner
We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our… — Julia Cameron
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given… — Michael Ondaatje
The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies… — Catherine Fisher
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. — Carl Sagan
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. — Corrie Ten Boom

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