Distance Quotes - Page 33

• A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Wise, Dirty

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• You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Emotional, Skills, Creating

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• People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Believe, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only distance out of the closet I really want to come there is having my tattoo or wearing my t-shirt.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Tattoo, Strong, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these distances remain between people and forces, I think we'll be in a perpetual state of upheaval.

  Harry Belafonte

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• The less you obey the Word of God, the more you distance yourself from God in the spiritual realm

  Sunday Adelaja

  Spiritual, Realms, Word Of God

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• Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

  George Edward Moore

  Men, Wish, Opinion

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• Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Moon, All Things

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• We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Example, World

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.115, Algora Publishing

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• Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Fiction, Want

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• Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Victory, Degrees

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• Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Reality, Dimensions, Wonder

  Abraham Isaac Kook, Ben Zion Bokser (1978). “Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems”, p.207, Paulist Press

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• It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.

  Marc Forster

  Moving, Technology, Keys

  Interview with Octavio Molina, www.askmen.com.

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• There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

  Henry Reed

  Years, Judging, House

  1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

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• You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Running, Sex

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source.

  Henri Nouwen

  Ideas, Giving, Creative

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• [A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Journey, Important, Pilgrimage

  Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.133, Bantam

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• Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins? Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with distance or the exotic. It is almost entirely an inner experience.

  Paul Theroux

  People, Mind, Ruins

  Paul Theroux (2001). “Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've always thought that you just make everything as best as you can, and then, one day, people will look objectively at what you do, from a distance, and see its quality. All you try to do is keep the standard up so that, one day, when I sit back and I look at it all, I can feel really good about it.

  Gavin Rossdale

  People, Trying, One Day

  Source: collider.com

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• When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

  Confucius

  Mother, Father, Trying

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

  Kabir

  Talking, Long, Mind

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• I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss.

  Chris Paul

  Long, Missing, Lines

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• There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moon, Shining, Fame

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• Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Lying, Gossip, Silence

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• I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Night, Heaven

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