Quotes About Distance

The language of Homer lay still further off. Imagine a twenty-first-century Texan reading Chaucer.

Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

El poder de separar dos personas que se quieren tan intensamente no está al alcance de una persona ajena.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood. Do not you think we have? ' 'Not half a mile,' was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness.

You have everybody dearest to you always at hand; I, probably, never shall again; and therefore, till I have outlived all my affections, a post office, I think, must always have power to draw me out in worse weather than today.

Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all. She wished with all her heart Combe Magna was not so near Cleveland; but it did not signify, for it was a great deal too far off to visit; she hated him so much that she was resolved never to mention his name again, and she should tell everybody she saw, how good-for-nothing he was.

there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. [...] Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Parecía mediar entre ambos un abismo invencible.

Confía en lo que sientes en tu corazón mientras te halles lejos de mí.

they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become aquatinted. It was perpetual estrangement.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement. When he talked, she heard the same voice, and discerned the same mind.

Kini mereka praktis adalah orang asing, bukan, malah lebih buruk daripada orang asing, sebab mereka bahkan tidak bisa bergaul layaknya kenalan anyar. Akan selalu ada jarak di antara mereka.

Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

No pudo haber dos corazones más abiertos, ni gustos tan similares, ni sentimientos tan unificados. Ahora eran dos extraños. No; peor que extraños, porque jamás podrían llegar a conocerse. Era un exilio perpetuo.

No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive;

PISTOLETTA: Mondd, papa, milyen messze van London? POPGUN: Leányom, aranyom, legkedvesebb gyermekem, két hónapja elhunyt drága anyám hasonmása, akivel Londonba megyek, hogy férjhez adjam Strephonhoz, és akire ráhagyom majd egész vagyonomat, hét mérföldre van innen.

Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever there.

At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.