Quotes About Distance

of the Isthmus of Panama—several thousand miles north of the actual strait.

The farther these potential invaders were kept from vulnerable English shores, the better.

That sense of security derived largely from the English Channel.

From the time we left that bay until the present day, we sailed fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues"—nearly sixty thousand miles—"and furthermore completed the circumnavigation of the world from east to west.

A round-trip to the far side of the world lasted seven years or longer

This was not a job designed to endear him to the other crew members, and the alguacil stood apart from the rest of the crew.

without the Pacific Ocean to inform his calculations, the estimated length of his route came to only half the actual distance.

The Thinking Subtype As a result of early trauma thinking subtypes have retreated to the life of the mind and choose theoretical and technical professions that do not require significant human interaction. These individuals tend to be more comfortable behind a computer, in their laboratory, or in their garage workshops where they can putter undisturbed. They can be brilliant thinkers but tend to use their intelligence to maintain significant emotional distance.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

Alguien que duerme está al mismo tiempo cerca y lejos, de ti y de sí mismo, impotente y, sin embargo, poderoso precisamente por su ausencia.

Everything that loomed so large close up - all you had to do was step away, and they shrank to nothing. You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

Lydia felt her heart in her chest like a pellet of ice, sliding down out of reach.

Up there- eighty-five miles high, ninety, ninety-five, the counter said- everything on earth would be invisible. Mothers who disappeared, fathers who didn't love you, kids who mocked you - everything would shrink to pinpoints and vanish. Up there : nothing but stars.

Outside in the world, volcanoes erupted, governments rose and collapsed and bartered for hostages, rockets exploded, walls fell. But in Shaker Heights, things were peaceful, and riots and bombs and earthquakes were quiet thumps, muffled by distance.

Everything that loomed so large close up—school, their parents, their lives—all you had to do was step away, and they shrank to nothing. You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

James remembers: long ago, when they were young and the worst thing they could imagine was not being together . . . That moment, that connection, seems far away and small now, like something that happened in another life.

The way he hadn't even glanced at them, as if he were focused on something far-off on the horizon or deep, deep in the past.

That evening, that sureness, feels ancient now, like something grown small with the distance of years.

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.

Ti ride negli occhi la stranezza di un cielo che non è il tuo.

Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.)

Behold a fire from the opposite shore.

How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground—seconds away—thousands of miles away.