Quotes About Distance

My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.

I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

The best armor is to keep out of range.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

She pretended she understood him, but how could she? He lived in the stars, and she was good, solid earth. She

Estudiar física de partículas, distanciaba a la gente de Dios o la acercaba

She had a ghostly pallor and a dreadful expression, she wore clothes that were out of keeping with the styles of the present-day; she had kept her distance from me and she had not spoken. Something emanating from her still, silent presence, in each case by a grave, had communicated itself to me so strongly that I had felt indescribable repulsion and fear. And she had appeared and then vanished in a way that surely no real, living, fleshly human being could possibly manage to do. And

how faith is about trusting God when He seems farthest away. I'm wondering if, in those moments, we have to remember what we know about God, about what He's done for us.

floating away from me like a cloud on the wind.

I had no idea the gap between earth and heaven is narrow, no wider than a jump over a brook. I'd always thought heaven was so far from the living, no one could measure its distance from earth. Even the wisest person ever born couldn't look up at the night sky through the most powerful telescope and catch a glimpse of heaven, it was that far off.

Where were you all this time? she said. Where have you been? I guess far away. Yes you were. Too far away. They sat in silence. You know you frightened me a little, she said. At the beginning. No. You did. He smiled at that. You looked as if you didnt anyone, she said. But this are the ones who need the most, he said. Don't you know that? I do know, she said. Too late.

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.

Sometimes the nearness of a storm may deafen us to distant thunder.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Give me my Scallop shell of quiet. You know, they did not print the whole of the Indian song in the subway. Only a few lines. But I know the poem. "It's off in the distance. It came into the room. It's here in the circle." I know the poem. She knows the poem

She felt safer back here, separated from this man by four feet of shining wood.

If he's at this party, I want you to stay far away from him." "Shouldn't that rule apply to you, and Jules, too? Unless your penises make you magically bulletproof.