Distance Quotes - Page 8

• At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

  George Washington

  Truth, Action, Theater

  "The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private".

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• The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And you: keep at a distance. If you approach too near, you let yourself be caught. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Dog, Doors, Soul

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• You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Way, Minutes, Miles

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• This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Real, Writing, Order

  Mario Vargas Llosa (1991). “A Writer's Reality”, Mariner Books

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• As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Love, Unions, Extremes

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• The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

  John Donne

  Progress, Degrees, Littles

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.30

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• A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

  Joseph Addison

  Circles, Sound, Degrees

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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• Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Degrees, Offensive, Objects

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.65

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• I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Perspective, May

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

  Horace

  Pieces, Fancy, One Piece

  Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

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• Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so

  Lord Chesterfield

  Night, Fool, Return

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.162

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• Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Empires

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• But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

  John James Audubon

  Gun, Bird, Flying

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• A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

  Pico Iyer

  Loyalty, Mean, Commitment

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.37, Vintage

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• Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.

  John James Audubon

  Spring, Farewell, Eye

  John James Audubon (1835). “Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.”, p.165

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• Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, World, Earth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.201

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• The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Running, Mean, Past

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• Even as considering African-Americans, immigrants and other groups who may be marginalized in different ways, American Muslims are still one of the most marginalized groups. Overt prejudice is probably more acceptable toward American Muslims than any other single group in the U.S. There is still a lot of policies in place that are incredibly effective that don't show any signs of eroding. So, I don't want to overstate the optimism but I think things are headed gradually in the right direction. Just because of the distance between us and 9/11.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Optimism, Different

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• Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Mother, Ems, Stuff

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2012). “A White Heron and Other Stories”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Men, Mind

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• If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Country, Memories, Mean

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Feb 25, 2012

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• He who manages the distance, manages the damage.

  Rener Gracie

  Damage, Manage

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