Quotes About Distance

Message I heard a cry in the night, A thousand miles it came, Sharp as a flash of light, My name, my name! It was your voice I heard, You waked and loved me so -- I send you back this word, I know, I know!

In Warsaw in Poland Half the world away, The one I love best of all Thought of me to-day; I know, for I went Winged as a bird, In the wide flowing wind His own voice I heard; His arms were round me In a ferny place, I looked in the pool And there was his face– But now it is night And the cold stars say: 'Warsaw in Poland Is half the world away.

I believed that what mattered to God was the direction I was facing not how far away I was. Sin it seemed to me was the refusal to let God be God.

The quickest way from St Petersburg to Kamchatka in furthest Siberia is still often westwards via New York.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

Where are you originally from?" "The planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away." "Must have been a long trip, John Smith." "Took almost a year. Next time I'm bringing a book.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we'll be with each other all the time, even if we're not with each other at all.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?