Distance Quotes - Page 40

• There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, People, Honor

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1473, My Ebook Publishing House

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• One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

  Cassandra Clare

  Goal, Mountain, Next Steps

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

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• The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

  Amish Tripathi

  Evil, Expanse

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• I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

  Junot Diaz

  Wanted, Permanent

  Junot Diaz (2009). “Drown”, p.36, Faber & Faber

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• Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Looks, Small Moments, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jun 04, 2013

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• All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Artist, Light, Two

  Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• In the distance a wolf howls. Let it come, I think. Beast will most likely simply howl back, and the creature will either turn tail and run or fall into line behind him, like the rest of us have.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Running, Fall, Thinking

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• Vampires smiled for many reasons, but when a vampire male smiled at you from this distance with that kind of look in his eyes it was done for one purpose only: to impress. Look at my big teeth. I’m an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Vampire, Males

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• From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

  Rachel Cohn

  Eye, Soul, Looks

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• The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Differences, Giving

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• I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Knowing, People, Freak

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• Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Spiritual, Divorce

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Past, History, Achievement

  Robert Penn Warren (1977). “A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial Season”, University of Alabama Press

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• So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Faces, Length

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• This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and time…I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in.

  Paula Vogel

  Memories, Writing, Community

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• Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Children, Forever, Phases

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• I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

  Franz Wright

  Believe, One Day, Disappear

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.30, Knopf

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• Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

  Anne Michaels

  Lonely, Bird, Arms

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• The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

  Adam Gopnik

  Believe, Simple, Errors

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.

  Elif Safak

  Sex, Plato, Thinking

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• In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

  Os Guinness

  Father, Home, House

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• If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

  Carlo Petrini

  Thinking, Journey, Space

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• The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

  Confucius

  Men, Three, Language

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.206

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• Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view—and your eyes are full of happy tears—and you want to sing—and wish you had wings! And then—you can’t stay there, but must continue your journey—you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Eye, Journey, Wings

  Lloyd C. Douglas (2012). “The Robe”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let me tell you what's fun in golf - low scores. The manufacturers have tricked people into believing that distance is everything. There is no place on the scorecard that says you need to hit it 350 yards.

  Hal Sutton

  Fun, Believe, Golf

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