Distances Quotes

153 Distances quotes by 133 unique authors

When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves… — Ai Yazawa
And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait… — Philip Pullman
I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I… — Dean Karnazes
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. — Robert Hass
Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn’t think you needed to set out to retrieve them… — Deb Caletti
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead,… — Abraham Lincoln
The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs.… — Kurt Vonnegut
...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other,… — Jose Saramago
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward… — Martin Heidegger
Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon,… — Leslie Marmon Silko
The profoundest distances are never geographical. — John Fowles
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source… — Dean Koontz
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. — Clarice Lispector
And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of… — Marcus Aurelius
The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the… — Carl Sagan
Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture… — Italo Calvino
I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. — Junot Diaz
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine… — Simon Newcomb
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people… — Elon Musk
If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing.… — David A. Bednar
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other… — Don Kardong
For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise. — Robert Kiyosaki

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