Distance Quotes - Page 28

• A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.

  Lewis Mumford

  Class, People, House

  "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford, p. 486, 1961.

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• They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

  Edmund Burke

  Snuff, Breeze, Tyranny

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Unemployment, Excuse

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• You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

  Juno Temple

  Looks, Fronts

  Source: collider.com

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• I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, Voice, Steps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Like the stocks of both Berkshire and Wesco to trade within hailing distance of what we think of as intrinsic value. When it runs up, we try to talk it down. That's not at all common in Corporate America, but that's the way we act.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Thinking, America

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• Distance is no barrier to the love of God.

  Max Anders

  God Love, Barriers

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• I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.

  Willie Nelson

  Nashville, Forgiving, Enemy

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.53, Penguin

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• If you take sales presentations and brokers of commercial real estate and businesses... I'm 70 years old, I've never seen one I thought was even within hailing distance of objective truth.... 'incentive-caused bias,' causes this terrible abuse. And many of the people who are doing it you would be glad to have married into your family compared to what you're otherwise going to get.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Years, People

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?

  Charlie Munger

  Party, Crooks, Would Be

  Charlie Munger's advice on investing at the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 6, 2006.

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• Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

  Sara Shandler

  Growing Up, Childhood, Sometimes

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• I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sick, Unhappy, Female

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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• I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

  Robert Bly

  Years, People, Trying

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• And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other runners know you are in a hurry even if you are. You can always overtake on long-distance running without letting others smell the hurry in you.

  Colin S. Smith

  Running, Smell, Long

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• There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Revenge, Feelings, Ethics

  Hunter S. Thompson (1967). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, Ballantine Books

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• Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that individuals have the right to buy and sell alcohol. That's why all the regulations that people take for granted-the restrictions on hours of operation, the ban on Sunday sales, the minimum distance from schools and churches, the minimum age, and the protection of local wineries from competition by wineries in other states-are illegitimate.

  Sheldon Richman

  Believe, School, Sunday

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• I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.

  Tom Robbins

  Moon, Hair, Cities

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• The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.

  George Carlin

  Two, Lines

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• The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.

  Pete Sampras

  Home, Loss, Long

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• It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Greatness, Yesterday, Speak

  "Fear and Trembling". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, translation by S. Walsh, p. 28, 2006.

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• Once the audience has to use themselves to cross the distance to the character, that's what's really exciting. That's when it starts to be a discussion between the art form and the audience, and that's fun stuff.

  Dallas Roberts

  Art, Fun, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's expanse, your eye is completely relaxed; once your eye is relaxed, your mind is unfettered.

  Emile Chartier

  Stars, Ocean, Eye

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Average, Lines, Voyages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Journey, Space

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• Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.

  Zig Ziglar

  Beautiful, Negative, Happens

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 29, 2012

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