Quotes About Distance

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.

One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.

The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance. It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense - the home sense - which operates unerringly.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

I spent my workdays at Skype creating a more connected world. We were shrinking the distances between people, making it easier to connect across countries. Then I'd go to my bank to transfer my euros to pounds, and it was like going back in time 50 years: expensive, inconvenient, and painfully slow. It was a nightmare.

I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.

I've always thought that love thrives on a certain kind of distance, that it requires an awed separateness to continue. Without that necessary remove, the physical minutiae of the other person grows ugly in its magnification.

I'm miles from where you are. I lay down on the cold ground, and I pray that something picks me up, and sets me down in your warm arms.

I'm miles from where you are I lay down on the cold ground And I, I pray that something picks me up And sets me down in your warm arms.

It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

A writer has to squelch his emotional reactions consciously in order to get enough distance to use them in his work as a writer.

Mis alas agitaron el aire y me llevaron cada vez más alto. Era como si estuviera alejándome del pueblo a toda velocidad, esforzándome por llegar lo más lejos posible. Cerré los ojos y saboreé el viento fuerte que azotaba mi rostro. Por un instante llegué a pensar en seguir de largo y desvanecerme, esfumarme en el cielo. No volver a descender jamás.

Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?

Brothers, I have listened to a great many talks from our great father. But they always began and ended in this: "Get a little further; you are too near me."

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

I find that when I get casual in my relationshsip with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns.

Distance is no bar for the dawn of love, the lotus blooms as soon as the sun peeps over the horizon

Einstein's 'spooky interactions.'" Einstein had famously described quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance.

They all live too far away," sighed Mama as she watched lonesome Sister pick up her trusty jump rope and start jumping with a friendly frog.

Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.

He wished they could drive all night, that the earth would rotate away from them at such a rate that they would never reach Willow Creek...

And now each day seems, Like my own soul, farther and farther off, Lost in its light as in a dream in which I meant to ask you something.

And I'm listening and thinking of the distances imagination travels sitting still, wandering without direction.