Quotes About Distance

Australia's distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be unable to produce in the northern hemisphere. Flax was the first conqueror — a hollow conqueror — of the distance which so often shaped Australia's destiny.

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia ' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

Kannst du verhindern, daß unsere Köpfe sich auf dem Boden des Korbes küssen?

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

The transposition of two Letters by five placeings will be sufficient for 32 Differences [and] by this Art a way is opened, whereby a man may expresse and signifie the intentions of his minde, at any distance of place, by objects … capable of a twofold difference onely,

Half of all regular church-going adults admit that they have not experienced God's presence at any time during the past year. The younger the adult, the more likely they are to state that God is a distant, impersonal reality for them. And even among those who say God's presence was evident to them, most of them say that happened only one or two times throughout the course of the year.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

During each short time interval the motion is assumed to proceed with a constant velocity corresponding to that time, and the distance covered is equal to this velocity multiplied by the time interval.

Repeating the same argument for each thin rectangle, we come to the conclusion that the total distance covered during the time interval (o,t) is equal to the area of the staircase or, in the limit, to the area of the triangle ABC.

Stay near me on the way back." Surprise slapped her face. She turned it into cold arrogance. "Worried about my survival?" "Don't want to miss an opportunity to use you as a body shield." "How sweet of you." "Stay near me, Elara." He walked away before she could come back at him with something clever.

Home, shower, apple pie. Maybe if I said it like a prayer, it would work. The distance between us shrank. Home, shower . . .

with about twenty-five feet of space between each to make sure nobody happened to trip and accidentally fall into a slaughter.

I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life.

Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.

Forgive me for not being able to be with you.

He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.

We just drifted apart . . . I began to find his company extremely tiring . It was extremely tiring, but we were all addicted to it.

Only sometimes at night when I think that you live now and are somewhere, I shed tears.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Over the bed hung the picture of her beloved, the Polish Rider. He was looking, with his authoritative pensive mouth and his calm wide-apart eyes, past Moy, over her left shoulder and away into some vast distance. He was a knight upon a quest. He was brave, innocent, chaste, good.

It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...

Me abraza con fuerza, pero no hay amor ni ternura. Sólo desesperación. Quizá tenga que ver con la conciencia de que me estoy alejando de él, alejándome de este mundo que él quiere que habite: su mundo, el mundo que no compartimos.

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.

Hasta edici bir yoksunluk duygusu yakama yap???yor. Bir insan?, gerçekten tan?mad???m?z birini gözden ?rakken sevmek ya da ondan nefret etmek çok kolay ve ben bu konuda uzman?m.