Distance Quotes - Page 25

• That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

  Aristotle

  Goal, Half, Way

  "Physics". Book by Aristotle (VI:9, 239b10), circa 340 BC.

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• Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Oxygen, Water

  "A Quayle Vision of Mars" by Kathy Sawyer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 1, 1989.

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• Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.

  Coleman Barks

  Going Away, Pushing Away, Longing

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• The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

  John McGahern

  Imagination, Needs, Demand

  John McGahern (2009). “Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.

  Oliver DeMille

  Book, Citizens, Today

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• The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.

  John Lachs

  Ignorance, Our Actions, Length

  John Lachs (2014). “Freedom and Limits”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

  Khalil Gibran

  Borders, Creation, Equal

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• Commitment. Someone who'll go the distance. I need somebody with staying power who'll make me go weak in the knees. Commitment. And everything that goes with it. I need honor and love in my life from somebody who's playing for keeps.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Commitment, Honor, And Love

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• Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Zurich, Soul

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Team, Risk, World

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

  Stephen Levine

  Heart, Partners, Aspect

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• I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing.

  Nadine Labaki

  Thinking, Trying, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Reality, Producers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

  Peter Blegvad

  Church Bells, Track, Radio

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.

  Tracey Garvis-Graves

  One Day, Events, Wake Up

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• GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

  Bette Midler

  Song: From a distance, Album: Cool Yule, 2006

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• Never in history has distance meant less.

  Alvin Toffler

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.

  Janio Quadros

  People, Almighty, Destined

  "Brazil: One Man's Cup of Coffee", content.time.com. June 30, 1961.

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• When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.

  Jerome Stern

  Character, Writing, Emotional

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• This fight means the world to me. It's what I've been dreaming about since I was 10 years old to win a world title. I'm going in their with nothing less than a victory. I think it's safe to say the fight is not going the distance and it's going to be a fight of the year candidate. He's going to come to fight, I'm coming to fight and I plan on leaving September 8th as the new world champion

  John Molina, Jr.

  Dream, Mean, Fighting

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• Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field.

  Julien Gracq

  Sleep, Journey, Blood

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• Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Space, Enough, Sabbath

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• Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

  Arthur Miller

  Two, Evil, Political

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• A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Wise, Dirty

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• However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Tired, Target

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