Distance Quotes - Page 29

• At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

  Stendhal

  Power, Government, Sight

  "La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 16), 1839.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Sides, Snob

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

  Samuel Richardson

  Dirty, Shoes, Clean

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.237

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the first time -- acknowledging that it has chemical weapons, agreeing to join the convention that prohibits the use of chemical weapons, and the Russians -- their primary sponsors -- saying that they will push Syria to get all of their chemical weapons out. The distance that we've traveled over these couple of weeks is remarkable.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Justice, Unity

  "Full Transcript: President Obama Speaks Exclusively to George Stephanopoulos on 'This Week'". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

  Beth Simone Noveck

  Technology, Creating, Expectations

  "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

  Franklin Pierce

  Views, Political, Enchantment

  26 Copy quote

• The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.

  Alexander Theroux

  Husband, Men, Frustration

  4 Copy quote

• I've come to the realization that if I don't feel like sharing, then I'm just not going to share. But I'm not going to go out of my way to mislead people or keep them at a distance, because that doesn't really get me anywhere either.

  Megan Fox

  People, Way, Realization

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Colin Farrell Talks DEAD MAN DOWN, Working with Noomi Rapace, SAVING MR. BANKS, WINTER’S TALE, EPIC, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Thinking, Knowing

  "Freedom and the Unknown". www.adyashanti.org. 2002.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

  Thomas Mallon

  Letters, Mail, Defeated

  Thomas Mallon (2009). “Yours Ever: People and Their Letters”, p.3, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.

  Genevieve

  Reason, Knows, No Reason

  20 Copy quote

• 'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.

  Jim Rohn

  Influence

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 03, 2016

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar.... Any one of these things I mean, not all together. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Travel, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.

  Gerald Stern

  Art, Moving, Eerie

  5 Copy quote

• The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Men, Feelings

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• . . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Pain, Evil, Expectations

  4 Copy quote

• Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fighting, Painting

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Courier Corporation

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Freedom, Perception, Born

  9 Copy quote

• To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Artist, Psychological, Competent

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.278, Indiana University Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  15 Copy quote

• I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.

  Crystal Eastman

  Marriage, Children, Husband

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Land, America, Water

  4 Copy quote

• From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Cities, Expectations

  4 Copy quote