Quotes About Distancing

They certainly didn't resemble the people you pictured when you saw those don't kill mee-maw signs urging masks and social distancing

people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.

I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it's a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don't want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.

This is because failure, always essential, reveals us to ourselves, permits us to see ourselves as God sees us, whereas success distances us from what is most inward in ourselves and indeed in everything.

I know what it looks like when someone's pushing the whole world away and how much you can lose while you're doing it.

I have nothing to do with Greg Hardy.

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

Honestly, I try to stay away from the famous chicks and L.A. girls in general.

Escape has two steps: first, separating from the pursuer. Then, distancing yourself from the incident, so nobody suspects the distant hubbub has you as its prey.

One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire.

I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental changes are to occur in law, custom, and society, they presuppose a great distancing from established principles. And the anarch, should he take any action, is capable of working this lever.

I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

The articulation of the other's body in words turns it into a map of possible pleasure, effectively distancing that body by transforming it into an erotic object.

When human beings distance themselves from their own inner truth and the truth around them, we can't see ourselves in our true light and that is to our detriment.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots.

American cities that caved to pressure from business interests to relax their social distancing rules experienced big second waves of disease.

including those circumstances where social distancing measures, limitations on gatherings or quarantine authority may be an appropriate public health intervention.

I was a distant father. I'd just go off and write. I did the thing that screws up kids more than anything else in America. I went and got myself a little bit famous.

When we hear stories about shame that don't fit with our experiences, our first reaction is often to distance ourselves from the experiences—"My mother would never say that" or "I don't get women who don't enjoy sex" or "She's so naïve—her husband's a wacko." The distancing turns very quickly into blame, judgment and separation.

We human beings love trying to solve things. As long as they're not our things.