Quotes About Distance

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Anyway, it wasn't that flavor of love. She could leave and carry it with her. Time would not put a dent in it, nor distance snuff it out.

our shadows stretched before us across the surface of the world.

I've totally fallen for him. Really bad.I don't know how I'm going to go back to Texas,Kate." "On an airplane." She scowled at me. "I'm serious.I don't want to leave him.

As economist Alan Blinder has argued, all impersonal services that can be delivered electronically at a distance, with little or no degradation in quality, are potentially vulnerable.16 What will be harder to replace are human creativity, customization, and human empathy.

What are the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

This" Today, my love, leaves are thrashing the wind just as pedestrians are erecting again the buildings of this drab forbidding city, and our lives, as I lose track of them, are the lives of others derailing in time and getting things done. Impossible to make sense of any one face or mouth, though each distance is clear, and you are miles from here. Let your pure space crowd my heart, that we might stay awhile longer amid the flying debris. This moment, I swear it, isn't going anywhere.

You cannot see the mountain near.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Debía de haber unos prismáticos de oler para percibir el perfume de los jardines lejanos.

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

It's a long drive home to Tarzana.

me imagino por un momento siendo el dueño de una vida distinta. Imagino una casa cerca de una ciudad pero aun así lo bastante lejos y nadie en el jardín y nada que merezca la pena olvidas ni nada que merezca ser recrdado.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.

It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.

I don't see my family often enough, but when we do catch up, it's somewhere new in the world. They get to travel more than they would if I wasn't doing this sport.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they're not reachable.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

Living without my children in Manchester has been incredibly challenging for me.