Distance Quotes - Page 27

• You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Running, Sex

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source.

  Henri Nouwen

  Ideas, Giving, Creative

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• Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

  Darin Strauss

  Sibling, Passion, Faces

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• [A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Journey, Important, Pilgrimage

  Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.133, Bantam

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• Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins? Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with distance or the exotic. It is almost entirely an inner experience.

  Paul Theroux

  People, Mind, Ruins

  Paul Theroux (2001). “Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Rays, Colour, Objects

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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• You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  People, Down And

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• I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Thinking, Sight

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• I've always thought that you just make everything as best as you can, and then, one day, people will look objectively at what you do, from a distance, and see its quality. All you try to do is keep the standard up so that, one day, when I sit back and I look at it all, I can feel really good about it.

  Gavin Rossdale

  People, Trying, One Day

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• When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

  Confucius

  Mother, Father, Trying

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wall, Flower, Garden

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1842). “Don Quixote”, p.165

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• As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

  Kabir

  Talking, Long, Mind

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• We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

  Huston Smith

  Drama, Character, Inward

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

  Kinky Friedman

  Gutters, Limousines

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• I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss.

  Chris Paul

  Long, Missing, Lines

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• The longest distance in the universe is not between the stars, but between the religion and the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars, Universe

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• There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moon, Shining, Fame

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• Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Lying, Gossip, Silence

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• Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

  Paul Wellstone

  Words You Say

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• The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Law, Bridges

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• Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was in the Premier League, he'd be the best player by some distance.

  Gary Lineker

  Player, Champions League, Competition

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• I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Night, Heaven

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• King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there's Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an inner stillness that is perfect for faintly ironic brooders. He neither distances himself from this risible material nor pulls out the stops and opens himself to ridicule. His King Arthur tells us little about Arthur, but much about protecting one's flank. The mark of a box-office king?

  David Edelstein

  Kings, Stupid, Perfect

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• Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.

  John Flavel

  Soul, Christ, Certain

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• Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Grieving, Today

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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