Distance Quotes - Page 29

• To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, People, Causes

  Sun Tzu (2014). “The Art of War”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

  Isaac Newton

  Squares, Matter, Force

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.428, Delphi Classics

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• I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target.

  Jackie Evancho

  Fun, Eye, Archery

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• Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rich, Poor, Willing

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.23, See Sharp Press

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• A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of teeth and white enamel and pink gums. The smile that fades in the distance as I drive away in a taxi again.

  Jann Arden

  Children, White, Make You Smile

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• I keep my distance from politics. Lots of money has been offered to me for campaigning over the years, and I have always refused. I used to be very politically aware and very opinionated, but I don't want to involve myself.

  Bipasha Basu

  Years, Want, Used

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• Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Discovery, Oneness

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• I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

  Henry Rollins

  Australia, Land, Creative

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• We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

  Henry Rollins

  Safe, Failing, Loud

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• When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

  Henry Rollins

  Empathy, Muzzle, Way

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• The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

  Henry Rollins

  Band, Bad Seed, Seeds

  "How We Met". Interview with Nicholas Barber, The Independent, March 23, 1997.

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• The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

  Italo Calvino

  Stress, Differences, Mind

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• I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Hair, Easier

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.

  Demetri Martin

  Dog, Fighting, Car

  Twitter post from Jun 07, 2012

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• The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.

  Demetri Martin

  Two, Lines, Idiot

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• My friend asked me I ever swam with dolphins. I was like, 'Yeah, of course. What distance are we talking about from the dolphins? Because the last time I was in the ocean, I'm pretty sure I swam with most of them.'

  Demetri Martin

  Ocean, Talking, Lasts

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• Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

  Stanley Elkin

  Order, Two, Feelings

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• The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.

  Artie Shaw

  Stars, Swings, Dust

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• I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

  Adam Ferrara

  Believe, Long, Different

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• You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.

  Dane Cook

  Light, Sky, People

  Twitter post from Aug 3, 2013

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• Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Pie, Long

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• I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

  Andreas Gursky

  World, Another World, Persons

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• When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

  Lance Henriksen

  Kids, Grandparent, Covering

  Source: collider.com

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• If I had to fall in love with all the actresses I play with and live the situations I have to play, I would be lost ! I need to be solid and know who I really am to have fun in making something else. I noticed, while talking with other actors, that they often let ambiguity float. I don't like ambiguity, it's dangerous. I need distance. I also think that the result would prevent the audience from identifying to the characters. If you feel the things too strongly, you simply close the doors.

  Olivier Martinez

  Falling In Love, Fun, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

  Paul Virilio

  Liberty

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