Distance Quotes - Page 15

• The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.

  Rosita Forbes

  Travel, Lying, Law

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

  Goliarda Sapienza

  Teacher, Loss, Lost

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• Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.

  Judith Kelman

  Photography, Way, Connections

  Judith Kelman (2002). “Summer of Storms”, Jove Publications

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• No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

  Lynn Austin

  Bleak, Terrain

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• You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.

  Kyle Minor

  Life Is, Boring, Mundane

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Real, Cutting

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.

  Hilary Swank

  Believe, Helping, Talent

  Source: collider.com

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• Never judge a journey by the distance.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Journey, Judging

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• the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

  M.C. Beaton

  Vision, Sound, Steam

  M. C. Beaton (2016). “Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus”, p.293, Hachette UK

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• Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight,
  Whilst distance recommends them to the sight.
  Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear:
  But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.

  Thomas Yalden

  Beautiful, Sight, Color

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• Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

  Douglas Pagels

  Lying, Compassion, Views

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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

  Tobsha Learner

  Long, Novelists, Marathon

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Car, Made, Difficult

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

  Lydia M. Child

  Beautiful, Selfish, Heart

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• I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

  Drew Barrymore

  Long, Affair, Share

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• I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

  David Harewood

  Mother, Dad, Long

  "David Harewood: My family values". Interview with Busola Evans, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I'm not ashamed that I need glasses for distance. I did not feel like I needed to have all of that hair, which was typical Star Jones, or the extra lashes or the heavy makeup.

  Star Jones

  Stars, Makeup, Glasses

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• I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.

  David Foster

  Thinking, People, Envy

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• Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fashion, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

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• Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Imagination, Misery, Paint

  Samuel Johnson (1999). “Rasselas”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stars, Greatness, Light

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.217, Harvard University Press

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• I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!

  Ashley Jensen

  Way, Los Angeles, Walks

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• In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

  Rene Balcer

  Car, Walking

  "TV's Top 50 Showrunners". The Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2010.

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• The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.

  Joseph Silk

  Mean, Space, Infinite

  Joseph Silk (2008). “The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le  vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.

  Pierre L. van den Berghe

  Political, Suffering, Gains

  'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).

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