Distance Quotes - Page 7

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  Xunzi

  Climbing, Toes, Standing Alone

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• To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

  Michelle Wie

  Men, Play, Stronger

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• The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Life, Animal, Body

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

  Olivier Martinez

  Nice, Long, Our Family

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• It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

  Derek Jacobi

  Civilization, Hard Life, Checks

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• The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Relationship, Goodbye

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.22

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• Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

  Henri Nouwen

  Silence, Listening, Cures

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). “Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

  George Fetherling

  Relationship, Wall, Long

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Goodbye

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• From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  "Fables", IV. 10, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 267-70, 1922.

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• Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

  Jean Piaget

  Long Distance Relationship, Learning, Distance Love

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• At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Perspective, Ordinary, Branches

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• There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

  Ivan Illich

  Prayer, Men, Religion

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The church, change, and development”

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• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Voice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• From a distance the world looks blue and green,
  and the snow-capped mountains white.
  From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
  and the eagle takes to flight.
  From a distance, there is harmony,
  and it echoes through the land.
  It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
  it's the voice of every man

  Bette Midler

  Ocean, Men, Eagles

  Song: From a distance, Album: Some People's Lives, 2006

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• I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

  Albert Camus

  Far Away, Alienation, Exile

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• I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

  Alice Sebold

  Ignorance, Thinking, Way

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• The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

  Philander Chase Johnson

  Beer, Men, Judging

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• A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Winning, People, Soul

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 04, 2013

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• In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

  Gary Shteyngart

  America, Rooms, Living Room

  Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.108, Random House

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• Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.

  John Nolte

  Interesting, Miracle, Helping

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• Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  People, Needs, Care

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• Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

  Simone Weil

  Friendship, Views, Miracle

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.78, Routledge

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