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Distance Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
- The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself…
- There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the…
- You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as…
- Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who…
More Distance Quotes
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? — Richard Bach
- Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and… — Emily Greene Balch
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. — Ugo Betti
- Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce
- Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno
- It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot.… — Lewis Black
- It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
- Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience… — Bono
- Laughter is the closest distance between two people. — Victor Borge