Quotes About Distance

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

Near a war is always not very near.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away...

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan

i do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now

I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.

Boys, at war, so far away, will naturally droop, both in body and mind, from lack of a particular girl's snuggling and cuddling.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

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

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.

He wrote how he "needed to be by himself, so he could miss her, to get some perspective

I built my hut in a zone of human habitation,Yet near me there sounds no noise of horse or coach. Would you know how that is possible?A heart that is distant creates a wilderness around it.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Books are a form of magic—" the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, "—because they span time and distance more surely than any spell or charm.