Distance Quotes - Page 27

• In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

  Rene Balcer

  Car, Walking

  "TV's Top 50 Showrunners". The Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2010.

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• Never judge a journey by the distance.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Journey, Judging

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• To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Player, Office

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• Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.

  Judith Kelman

  Photography, Way, Connections

  Judith Kelman (2002). “Summer of Storms”, Jove Publications

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• No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

  Lynn Austin

  Bleak, Terrain

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• So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Real, Cutting

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.

  Hilary Swank

  Believe, Helping, Talent

  Source: collider.com

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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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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

  Tobsha Learner

  Long, Novelists, Marathon

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

  Lydia M. Child

  Beautiful, Selfish, Heart

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• I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

  Drew Barrymore

  Long, Affair, Share

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• I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.

  David Foster

  Thinking, People, Envy

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• Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fashion, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

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• It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stars, Greatness, Light

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.217, Harvard University Press

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• I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!

  Ashley Jensen

  Way, Los Angeles, Walks

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

  Andre Chenier

  Waiting, Dying, Death And Dying

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• I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Winning, Three, Four

  Lleyton Hewitt's Wimbledon Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. June 27, 2014.

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• Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Play, Love And Distance

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

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• From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.

  Andrea Hirata

  Children, Writing, Sunset

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• I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.

  Radka Donnell

  Space, Work Out, Silence

  Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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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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• We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

  Steven Weber

  War, Fighting, Blessing

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

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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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• I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

  Norman Foster

  Space, Generosity, Friendly

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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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