Distance Quotes - Page 23

• Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.

  Bob Marshall

  Fall, Black, Mountain

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• Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

  Thomas Campbell

  Inspirational, Nature, Views

  Pleasures of Hope pt. 1, l. 7 (1799).

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• Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

  Jessamyn West

  Leadership, Women, Numbers

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives.
  We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human.

  John Bingham

  Art, War, Moving

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• Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time.

  Steven Wright

  Long, Walking

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• Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.

  Michael Flynn

  Home, One Direction, Faster

  Michael Flynn (2006). “Eifelheim”, p.20, Macmillan

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• You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.

  John Bingham

  Dream, Athlete, Long

  John Bingham, Jenny Hadfield (2003). “Marathoning for Mortals: A Regular Person's Guide to the Joy of Running or Walking a Half-Marathon or Marathon”, p.1, Rodale

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• The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.

  Ptolemy

  Stars, Lying, Moving

  Ptolemy (1984). “Ptolemy's Almagest”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

  Charles Mackay

  Truth, Eye, Math

  Charles Mackay (1850). “Egeria, or The spirit of nature; and other poems”, p.182

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• Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

  Candice Bergen

  Long, People, Behavior

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• Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

  Anthony Wayne

  Men, Giving, Great Day

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• Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

  Paul Martin

  Stars, Night, Cities

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• I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Party, Writing

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• I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

  Andre Dubus

  Stars, Crazy, Years

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• You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

  Dan O'Brien

  Athlete, Men, Guy

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• I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

  James Thurber

  Ocean, Night, Squares

  James Thurber, Marc Simont (1998). “Many Moons”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

  Francis Bacon

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.456

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• People tend to keep their distance.

  Adam Ant

  People

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• The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

  John Locke

  Father, Son, Would Be

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

  Henry Reed

  Years, Judging, House

  1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

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• I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.

  Robert Reed

  Character, Past, Simple

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• Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

  David Brooks

  Humility, Thinking About You, Self

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.

  William Friedkin

  Views, People, Mystery

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly.

  Evanna Lynch

  Stars, Home, Feelings

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.

  Nicholson Baker

  Struggle, Book, Dark

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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