Quotes About Inaccessibility

no less than 99.5 per cent of the world's habitable space by volume, according to one estimate, is fundamentally—in practical terms completely—off limits to us. It

Maybe that was why I was so attracted to him. Because he was unattainable.

I could never be James Bond.

To be honest, I think emotional accessibility is a shame trigger for researchers and academics. Very early in our training, we are taught that a cool distance and inaccessibility contribute to prestige, and that if you're too relatable, your credentials come into question.

Very early in our training, we are taught that a cool distance and inaccessibility contribute to prestige, and that if you're too relatable, your credentials come into question.

Es gibt aber noch eine dritte, geheimnisvolle und beunruhigende Kategorie von Frauen. Jene, mit denen wir weder etwas haben durften noch konnten. Sie haben uns gefallen, wir haben ihnen gefallen, haben aber sofort begriffen, dass wir sie nicht haben können, weil wir uns mit ihnen jenseits der Grenze befunden hätten.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

Within his temples felt thoughts not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations. Thus, to his physical attractiveness was added the attractiveness of mental inaccessibility.

sapere che coloro ai quali tu aneli, vi resistono con severa inaccessibilità, fa molto male.

There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take…I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick. No Names

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it, and hold it forever inaccessible. (I love you, someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - Well, how much? - and when the answer comes - with my whole heart - we then wonder about the wholeness of the a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our fathers, our gods - they are all beyond us.

Aprendía mal y a medias una lección: la gente se moría. Al morir, ¿dónde quedaba?, ¿eran ya para siempre inaccesibles? Transitaba como la cabeza de la tortuga, de la vida a la muerte, preguntándome dónde estaba la línea segura. Y no veía bien a bien dónde pararme para saber que estaba en territorio firme. Sobre todo porque comenzaba una exploración que ponía en juego la apariencia de los vivos.

us—I looked at that beautiful snow-capped mountain and named it Eliza. Because it was warm, fertile, and beautiful below, while being a bit frosty and inaccessible at the top—yet possessing a volcanick profile foretelling explosions—

Hiro is just a starving CIC stringer who lives in a U-Stor-It by the airport. But in the entire world there are only a couple of thousand people who can step over the line into The Black Sun.

Alamut could be reached only astride eagles.

hombre político contemporáneo es el ser más distanciado de la gente común porque vive en fortines protegidos, viaja en automóviles blindados, se mueve rodeado de gorilas, y por lo tanto la gente lo ve solo de lejos y nunca tiene ocasión de hacer la compra en el supermercado o la cola en una ventanilla municipal.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.

God and the Blessed Virgin were too far from him: God was too great and stern and the Blessed Virgin too pure and holy.

Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

The Franks may have lived near them, but I could no more choose to join them at their well-appointed table (to return to David Brooks's cafeteria metaphor) than I could flap my arms and fly to the moon.