Distances Quotes
153 quotes by 141 authors
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality…
— Alan Ball
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades…
— Italo Calvino
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and…
— Sun Tzu
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these…
— Henri Poincare
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the…
— Roger Ebert
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I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep,…
— Dalai Lama
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It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a…
— Richard P. Feynman
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even…
— Goswami Kriyananda
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Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a…
— Lyman Spitzer
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This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its…
— Urbain Le Verrier
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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
— Alex Ferguson
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...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in…
— Seneca the Younger
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before…
— Leonard Cohen
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Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
— Dorianne Laux
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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people....
— David Byrne
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The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things…
— Gautama Buddha
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...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a…
— Bruce Barnbaum
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