Distances Quotes

153 quotes by 141 authors

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
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
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
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
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out. — Alex Ferguson
...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
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
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
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux
Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.... — David Byrne
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
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
...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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