Quotes About Distance

Are you—are you sad?" —No. "But your—your songs are sad." —My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells. "I—I knew that. Once.

My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you.

The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world.

Caminaron juntos, como dos universos distintos de experiencias y sentimientos, incapaces de comunicarse.

The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood.

He's gaining on us, the Turk said. That is also inconceivable, the Sicilian said. Before I stole this boat we're in, I made many inquiries as to what was the fastest ship on all of Florin Channel and everyone agreed it was this one. You're right, the Turk agreed, staring back. He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.

He had written to her just before he sailed for America. The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

And, so to tell more about the South Watcher. A million years gone, as I have told, came it out from the blackness of the South, and grew steadily nearer through twenty thousand years; but so slow that in no one year could a man perceive that it had moved.

To my right, which was to the North, there stood, very far away, the House of Silence, upon a low hill. And in that House were many lights, and no sound. And so had it been through an uncountable Eternity of Years.

It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.

My father passed me. He looked briefly at me as you might at a stump or a broken machine or anything that's specific only in that it's in your way, to walk around it as my father did me.

How could one not think of the stories we all grew up on, that surely the Ul Qomans grew up on too? Ul Qoman man and Bes? maid, meeting in the middle of Copula Hall, returning to their homes to realise that they live, grosstopically, next door to each other, spending their lives faithful and alone, rising at the same time, walking crosshatched streets close like a couple, each in their own city, never breaching, never quite touching, never speaking a word across the border.

The fame of good men?s actions seldom goes beyond their own doors, but their evil deeds are carried a thousand miles? distance.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

Bu yerlerde trenler do?udan bat?ya, bat?dan do?uya gider gelir, gider gelirdi... Bu yerlerde demiryolunun her iki yan?nda ?ss?z, engin, sar? kumlu bozk?rlar?n öze?i Sar? Özek uzar giderdi. Co?rafyada uzakl?klar nas?l Greenwich meridyeninden ba?l?yorsa, bu yerlerde de mesafeler demiryoluna göre hesaplan?rd?. Trenler ise do?udan bat?ya, bat?dan do?uya gider gelir, gider, gelirdi...

Trains in these parts went from East to West, and from West to East . . . On either side of the railway lines lay the great wide spaces of the desert - Sary-Ozeki, the Middle lands of the yellow steppes. In these parts any distance was measured in relation to the railway, as if from the Greenwich meridian . . . And the trains went from East to West, and from West to East . . .

So how can you avoid letting these subtle emotions get the best of you? Get some distance.

We can attain distance by looking at our situation from an observer's perspective.     ââ'¬Â¢  Andy Grove asked, "What would our successors do?"     ââ'¬Â¢  Adding distance highlights what is most important; it allows us to see the forest, not the trees.     7.

To make better decisions, use the WRAP process: Widen Your Options. Reality-Test Your Assumptions. Attain Distance Before Deciding. Prepare to Be Wrong.

Widen Your Options. Reality-Test Your Assumptions. Attain Distance Before Deciding. Prepare to Be Wrong.

The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep.