Distance Quotes - Page 9

• If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Country, Memories, Mean

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Feb 25, 2012

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• The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Running, Mean, Past

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• He who manages the distance, manages the damage.

  Rener Gracie

  Damage, Manage

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• Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

  Bill Vaughan

  Mean, Reality, Judging

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• It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.

  Tom Stoppard

  Arrows, Greek, Saint

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

  Elvis Costello

  Complicated, Spending, Pondering

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

  Paul Davies

  Thinking, Earth, Unlikely

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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• It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.

  Gloria Steinem

  Successful, Years, Feminism

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Ironic, Humour

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• Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

  Anthony de Mello

  Doe, Sun, Skyscraper

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• We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

  Simon Winchester

  Powerful, Stupid, Kids

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• Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

  Gib Lewis

  Texas, Long, Scare

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• Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. I want to remember everything. But perhaps I need to give it more time. Allow myself some rest. Distance myself a little, to see if I can make out a pattern. And face the truth about what is really there.

  Linda Olsson

  Memories, Remembers Everything, Order

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• Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Space, Mind, Wonderful

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2339, Modern Library

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• The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.

  Edmund Waller

  Eye, Clouds, Light

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.146

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• Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Loneliness, Psychics, People

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Maintaining, Contemplating, Oneself

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.37, Tuttle Publishing

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• London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.

  Soseki Natsume

  Cities, Temptation, London

  Soseki Natsume (2011). “Spring Miscellany: And London Essays”, p.114, Tuttle Publishing

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• The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found.

  Robert Holden

  Recovery, Journey, Self

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• Every mile marker can be met with some measure of trepidation, in a race or in life. Am I on target? Do I have what it takes to finish strong? Am I taking care to stay nourished so I can endure? Is my training proving to be sufficient? Am I prepared for the hills? It is impossible to fathom the full distance, so we make our way to the next mile marker, and the next, checking in with ourselves as we go.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Strong, Race, Training

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• Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Death, Memories, Reconcile

  Leonid Andreyev (1922). “He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts”

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• The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

  Theodor Adorno

  Two, People, Lines

  "Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1951.

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• Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

  Doug Larson

  Law, Flight, Airline

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• Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Lying, Men

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635”, p.308

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• To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Views, Departure

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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