Distance Quotes

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

People are trading distance for dollars.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.

Do we need distance to get close?

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.