Quotes About Distance

thought of as it once was: intervening space

Since instantaneous foldspace communication did not exist between planets, certified and bonded Couriers booked passage on express Heighliners, bearing flash-memorized communications for personal delivery to the intended recipients. The net result was much faster than radio or other electronic signals that would take years to cross vast space.

It would be a surprise manoeuvre. A handpicked squad led by him would carry out the mission. Dressed in Cluny's war helmet and armour, Redtooth would stay back in the meadow. His disguise would be sufficient to fool the defenders from the distance of the high walls.

You don't care if it's cold and raining or warm and sunny 10,000 miles away because it's not your weather. The same detachment should apply to your 401(k) investments until you approach retirement. Even

Standing still at dusk Listen . . . in far distances The song of froglings!

A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures…All three of them were equally lost.

The ice cubes in her voice were clinking mercilessly.

his mother wanted him closer to home. The funeral had been

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything in space in the past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.

Kepler's third or harmonic law states that the squares of the periods of the planets (the times for them to complete one orbit) are proportional to the cubes of their average distance from the Sun; the more distant the planet, the more slowly it moves, but according to a precise mathematical law: P2 = a3, where P represents the period of revolution of the planet about the Sun, measured in years, and a the distance of the planet from the Sun measured in "astronomical units.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has taken Voyager to travel from Earth to Jupiter.

Our species has discovered a way to communicate through the dark, to transcend immense distances. No means of communication is faster or cheaper or reaches out farther. It's called radio.

Porque el tiempo es la distancia más larga entre dos lugares...

Why didn't it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough...and not closer?

Timpul nu stirbeste prieteniile adevarate, si nici departarea.

Sabía por advertencia del corazón que es peligroso el enfrentarse a las cosas sobre las cuales, desde lejos, ponemos a reposar nuestros recuerdos.

How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.' John Webster (c.1580–1634), English Jacobean dramatist

The Great Wall of China resembles the concept of heartache in that neither can peel a banana.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.