Distance Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

  Plato

  Conditions

  Plato (1926). “Cratylus: Parmenides ; Greater Hippias ; Lesser Hippias”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Stars, Loneliness, Contrast

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• Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?

  Isaac Newton

  Mean, Space, Curves

  Sir Isaac Newton (1730). “Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.324

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• For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.111

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• Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Moving, Journey, Class

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.87, Penguin

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• Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Cities, America, Height

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 3, The Golden Horde, p. 58), 1989.

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• The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

  Paul Klee

  Elements, Lines, Moments

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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• I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

  Bel Kaufman

  Perspective, Sense Of Humor, Used

  BEL KAUFMAN (1964). “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE”

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• Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.

  Wilhelm Rontgen

  Order, Atoms, Limits

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• The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.

  Harriet Lerner

  Cat, Thinking, Water

  "The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2012.

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• I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis—a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.

  Ali Vincent

  Goal, Different, Target

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• Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.

  James McCosh

  Jesus, Book, Law

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.307

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• That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

  Iain Banks

  Stars, Fighting, Light

  "Consider Phlebas (The Culture, Book 1)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2 "The Hand of God 137", p. 32), 1987.

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• I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Squares, Gravity, Decrease

  Quoted in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 56 (1948), pp. 189 - 190, 1691.

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• The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Two

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• Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Relevant, Sensational, Modernity

  "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012.

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• The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

  Fritz Todt

  Moving, Men, Animal

  "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, 2000.

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• the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

  Frederick Franck

  Compassion, Brain, Pigeons

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• Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.

  Marsden Hartley

  Expression, Paris, Knowing

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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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