Distancing Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you…
— Seth Klarman
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Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing…
— Jane Siberry
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The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are…
— Bernardine Dohrn
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Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.
— Susan Sontag
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Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from…
— Paulo Coelho
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I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never…
— Karen Chance
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The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.
— Daniel Pennac
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I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the…
— Jason Alexander
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Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my…
— Philippe Petit
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The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
— Pierre Schaeffer
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Just because I don't talk to you doesn't mean I still don't think about you. I'm just distancing myself because I know I can't have…
— Wiz Khalifa
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A changing skyline. A slice of window filled in by a middle-distancing oblong topped by little moving figures.
— Denise Levertov
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Just because I don't talk to you it doesn't mean I still don't think about you. I'm just distancing myself because I know I can't…
— Any Girls Though
Who Wrote These Distancing Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Distancing Quotes as follows: