Distance Quotes - Page 5

• Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

  Brian Aldiss

  Men, Civilization, Distance Relationship

  "The Dark Light Years". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Hope, Life Lesson

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday

  Nicholas Sparks

  Romantic, Notebook, Long Distance Relationship

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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• Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Technology, Giving, Radio

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• Age, like distance lends a double charm.

  Oliver Herford

  Time, Age, Aging

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• Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Perspective, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1815). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.190

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• As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

  Alcibiades

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

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• Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

  Frank Ocean

  Letting Go, Sometimes, Knows

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• Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

  Martin Heidegger

  Two, Space, Long

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.

  Noah

  Friendship, Far Away, Long Distance Friendship

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• Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

  James Howell

  Sometimes, Absence

  James Howell (1908). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: the familiar letters of James Howell”

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• Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Pain, Women

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Looks, Pages, Poetic

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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• Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

  Henry Knox

  Men, Taxes, Rulers

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

  Mary Astell

  Unhappy, Wit, Be Good

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

  James G. Frazer

  Magic, Principles, Contact

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• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Indifference

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• The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

  Payne Stewart

  Long Distance Relationship, Sports, Fall

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• I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

  Casey Kasem

  Reading, Dedication, Long

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

  Karl Kraus

  Long, Looks, Literature

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• 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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Book, Home, Two

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• I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

  Joseph Epstein

  Giving, Looks, Compliment

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

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