Distance Quotes - Page 21

• Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Mean, Artist, Giving

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• I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Law, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

  Cindy Ross

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  Cindy Ross (1987). “Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada”, p.187, Mountaineers Books

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• Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living ... life on the move ... heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away.

  Cindy Ross

  Pain, Live Life, Moving

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• The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Emotional, Personality

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• If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Art, Views

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• Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation.

  Elif Safak

  Feminist, Leader, Sound

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• I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

  Hiam Abbass

  War, Grew Up, Exile

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• We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce.

  Michael Pollan

  Cities, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.

  Lea Michele

  Girl, Long Distance, Long

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Europe, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Memories, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• It seemed like so much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or emailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. I think it's sort of shifted the energy of that first romantic meeting, where it's quicker, perhaps more desperate, more energetic, in a whole different way, and it's resulted in a situation where people seem to be sometimes more comfortable having a sexual relationship than an emotional one.

  Ivan Reitman

  Emotional, Thinking, People

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press Conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.

  Jim Sturgess

  Falling In Love, Book, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it’s texting or emailing or Facebooking, there’s a kind of distance between the participants.

  Ivan Reitman

  People, Texting, Today

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Long, People, Loner

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• In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.

  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

  Art, Reality, Views

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• Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in some form of service and that changes the way you think about people in your country; you kind of think of them at a distance. And so there's that shift away from some sort of sacrifice - thinking of yourself as the most important thing in the world versus thinking of yourself as some sort of a whole.

  Joe Meno

  Country, Thinking Of You, Sacrifice

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

  Buzz Aldrin

  People, Waste, Physics

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• whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Cat, Intelligent

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• I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip.

  Philip Pullman

  Two, Example, Use

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Kids, Friendly

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

  Crowder

  Media, Expectations, Persons

  "A conversation with award-winning recording artist David Crowder". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.

  Chuck Liddell

  Bars, Found, Aggressive

  "Chuck Liddell UFC 115 Interview". Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. June 10, 2010.

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