Distance Quotes - Page 31

• In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Taken, Loss

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• No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that I only would have done the SLAYER eagle and not the dragons ´coz I like tribals that stand out from a distance. Like you could be a snowblind in the concert and you are still gonna see it. That´s why I like about it.

  Kerry King

  Dragons, Eagles, Wish

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• What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

  Victor Borge

  Laughter, Two, Laughing

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Exercise, Swimming

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Most of all, the ultra distance leaves you alone with your thoughts to an excruciating extent. Whatever song you have in your head had better be a good one. Whatever story you are telling yourself had better be a story about going on. There is no room for negativity. The reason most people quit has nothing to do with their body.

  Scott Jurek

  Song, People, Negativity

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.136, A&C Black

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• I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Thinking, Mountain

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.270, Oneworld Publications

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• As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Pain, Perspective, Understanding

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• Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Eagles, Views

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• We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.

  David Whyte

  Pain, Taken, Reality

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• Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.

  Steve Farrar

  Errors, Bowling, Increase

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• The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

  Steve Farrar

  Father, Trying, Overcoming

  Steve Farrar (2009). “Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family”, p.47, Multnomah

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• The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Body, Function, Surface

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• Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.

  Paul Virilio

  Air, Water, Substance

  Paul Virilio (1997). “Open Sky”, p.40, Verso

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• We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

  John Wesley Powell

  Running, Rivers, Conjecture

  John Wesley Powell (2003). “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”, p.268, Penguin

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• From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Baby, Children, Steps

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• True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Believe, Humility, Acceptance

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• From my admittedly cranky perspective, Bush/Cheney are lousy on the Bill of Rights, Clinton/Gore were lousy on the Bill of Rights, and everyone within bribing distance of the 2008 election (Hillary, McCain, Giuliani) are lousy on the Bill of Rights, too.

  Matt Welch

  Rights, Perspective, Bills

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• In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.

  Kate Madison

  Mom, Long Distance Relationship, Lonely

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• There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story.

  Phil Klay

  Girl, War, Two

  Phil Klay (2014). “Redeployment”, p.36, Penguin

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• I have a seven-level program and through even into the fifth level it can be all done from a distance. "Why not?" is how I feel about it, because energy is not confined by time or space, so why should my teaching be. I'm teaching energy and how to manage it, how to handle it, and how to heal with it.

  Deborah King

  Teaching, Space, Energy

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Mask, Critics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Different, Discovering Something New

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?

  Paul Auster

  New York, Paris, Years

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy et Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

  Patricia McConnell

  Done, Prison, Persons

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the wild." This is why I love parks, and why I chose to use them in my work - they are beyond nature. I see nature as a resource.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Real, Ideas, Use

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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