Distance Quotes - Page 18

• Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.

  Andre Chenier

  Waiting, Dying, Death And Dying

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• The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.

  Virginia Knauer

  Organization, Corporations, Boards

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• The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Car, Trying, Safe

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

  Maria Bamford

  Inspirational, Family, Positive Thinking

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• our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Shoes, World, Smooth

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.24, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of mind calmly to investigate, or candidly to appreciate, the motives of their enemies, which often escape the impartial and discerning view even of those who are placed at a secure distance from the flames of persecution.

  Edward Gibbon

  Views, Flames, Appreciate

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.307, Wordsworth Editions

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• The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

  Matthew Henry

  Dark, Israel, Sometimes

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• Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Mean, Names

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

  Edith Wharton

  Giving, Warning, Levels

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Hero, Book, Electric Shock

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• A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic
  feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Fire, Cities

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Atrocities, Gone, Ruins

  "Paperback Q&A: Cynthia Ozick on Foreign Bodies". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Jobs, Looks

  "Arsène Wenger dismisses personal landmark to focus on AZ Alkmaar" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.

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• With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Character

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

  Douglas Pagels

  Lying, Compassion, Views

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• Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

  Graham Joyce

  Years, Long, People

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

  Lisa Randall

  Weak, Gravity, Modest

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• Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Reality, Space, Action

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

  Jonathan Ames

  New York, Parent, Brooklyn

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• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  Sadie Jones

  Horse, Loyal, Stills

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• The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Expression

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.336, Xist Publishing

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• Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

  Theodore Millon

  Personality, Pieces, Cognition

  Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley

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• The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Exile

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• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Anchors, Long, Connections

  "The Lost Art Of Telephone Conversation" by Rainbow Rowell, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2014.

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• Love is the distance between reality and pain.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Sad, Pain, Reality

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