Quotes About Distance

Con la distancia, todo el el mundo parece mejor. Todo el mundo parece más agradable cuando no tienes que escucharlo continuamente. Después de que Yuri colgara, Natasha pasó junto a su hermano, en el muro, y su madre, que estaba limpiándose las gafas al lado. Querer a quienes tienes cerca..., eso es lo difícil.

Everyone looked better at a distance. Everyone sounded sweetest when you did not have to hear them talk too long.

Ella pareció indecisa, de modo que le tironeó la mano, acercándola más, no más de una pulgada, pero en cierto modo tuvo la impresión de que ella estaba a sólo la distancia de un beso.

Even while he'd been gone, she'd always know he was /there/, sharing the same planet with her, walking the same earth.

it was easy to forget about someone one never saw.

who could easily make a grown man wish himself aboard a ship to Australia.

I just want to get as far away from Indiana as possible.

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

To be able to communicate with people on the other side of the globe is interesting, in an instant.

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

But I am like the grass, I can not love you.

As the Siberian saying goes: One hundred versts (roughly a hundred miles) is no distance. A hundred rubles isn't worthwhile money. And a hundred grams of vodka just makes you thirsty.

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.

La noche se tendía a descansar sobre la tierra, y era una noche de estancias negras, transparentes y redondas: más negras, más anchas y menos transparentes mientras más lejanas; estancias como las ondas del agua de un pozo donde hubiera caído el mundo.

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

Van Uoc felt the stab of a sad truth: she and her mother would never be as close as her mother and grandmother had been. Her mother got up, stretched her tidy, graceful frame and headed for the kitchen. Van Uoc wanted to be able to offer her some comfort, but what could she say? Her mother was right. The two of them represented an irreconcilable cultural split. Distance between them was inevitable.

The scientific name for this pacing mechanism is anticipatory regulation. Its output is a continuously refreshed, intuition-like feeling for how to adjust one's effort in order to get to the finish line as quickly as possible. Its inputs are perception of effort, motivation, knowledge of the distance left to be covered, and past experience.

I still thought that to get something you had to go straight for your goal whereas it is only distractions, uncertainty, distance that bring us closer to our targets, and then it is the targets which strike us.

C'è qualcosa di assoluto e di imprendibile in certi esseri, sembra una lontananza dal mondo, dai vivi, ma sembra anche il segno di chi subisce un potere che non conosciamo.

Ahora eran extraños, no, peor que extraños, porque entre ellos no existía la posibilidad de que llegaran a ser amigos. Se trataba de un alejamiento perpetuo.

So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the fireplace of a country cottage, with a sympathetic soul opposite me. And I shall go on talking, in a low voice while the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars.

Departe de tine, inima mea este aidoma unei ferestre sparte.