Quotes About Distancing

Quarantini — just a regular martini, but you drink it alone at home

A myopic focus on the proposed psychopathology of perpetrators, or on their alleged extraordinary personalities, tells us more about our own personal dreams of how we wish the world to work than it does about the reality of perpetrator behavior. In that role, such explanations satisfy an important emotional demand of distancing us from them.

It's a dynamic of grief within any family, and I found, after we lost Steve, his dad just began distancing himself. And I think it's a coping mechanism. I found it very confusing.

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

Due to the very nature of police work, social distancing isn't always an option for our nation's law enforcement heroes.

As much a search for novelty, new tastes can be a conscious rejection of what has come before—and a distancing from those now enjoying that taste. "I liked that band before they got big," goes the common refrain.

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

Shadows were distancing themselves from the trees, the statues, the people. Elongating.

I maintain social distancing and try to take all the precautions, sanitise again and again after a few minutes.

Based on studies of what U.S. cities did in 1918, modelers have concluded that "layering" several interventions—most of them different kinds of "social distancing"—would at least stretch out the length of an influenza outbreak in a local community

Based on studies of what U.S. cities did in 1918, modelers have concluded that "layering" several interventions—most of them different kinds of "social distancing"—would at least stretch out the length of an influenza outbreak in a local community, easing the strain on the health care system.

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

Distancing has 3 reasons: Either you hate that person, you want to move on, or you're too scared to fall completely for that person.

Things seemed frozen in silent attention so as not to disturb the moonlight which, duplicating and distancing each thing by extending its shadow before it, denser and more concrete than itself, had at once thinned and enlarged the landscape like a map that had been folded and was now opened out.

When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.

At home, at our most vulnerable, she's Mummy. When we're talking to other people she's Mum, but in my head she's just Mia because I've been angry at her so many times that I've wanted to distance myself from her.

These stupids can't see that political parties are holding rallies, functions without any social distancing and politicos are not wearing masks and yet these fools think that there is corona virus and wear masks.

I believe it is the inability of beginning writers to achieve at least a certain degree of detachment from their writing that defeats so many of them before they even get started. Without this distancing, any criticism of your writing will seem devastating, even incapacitating, whereas with the proper amount of detachment it will seem merely cruel and unusual punishment.

In part this is an intimacy disorder, for as soon as she starts to recommit to the relationship, he starts distancing himself. The intensity begins to build again. He feels trapped or jealous or possessive or something else that distances him from her. Imagine that a relationship is a circle. For true intimacy to take place, both must stay in the circle at the same time.

I'm told that we addictive-type personalities want to cover our pain, so we use food, spending, sex, drugs, sleeping, gambling, alcohol, work, people, blame, social activities, the Internet, etc., to distance and disguise what we don't know how to solve inside of us. The