Quotes About Distance

And if he thinks you're to blame, and you're the one telling him to calm down…well! Keep a respectful distance from his claws.

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

In some ways we were more remote than strangers because strangers at least have the possibility of yet unmade connections.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

A response is thus a particular case of interaction between the external world and the subject, but unlike physiological interactions, which are of a material nature and involve an internal change in the bodies which are present, the responses studied by psychology are of a functional nature and are achieved at greater and greater distances in space (perception, etc.) and in time (memory, etc.) besides following more and more complex paths (reversals, detours, etc.).

Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.

staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,

This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.

Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Talent, réussite, succès font de vous un ennemi de l'espèce humaine qui, à mesure qu'elle vous admire plus, se reconnaît moins en vous et préfère vous tenir à distance. Seuls les escrocs, par l'origine triviale de leur fortune, l'acquièrent sans se couper de leurs semblables et même en s'attirant leur sympathie.

even if the previous millisecond is closer to us than the birth of the universe, it is equally out of reach.

Perché non riusciva a decidersi? Che cosa ci guadagnava a stare in mare, lontano da chi amava? Quale maledizione aveva colpito lui e tanti altri, che non trovavano il senso della vita se non lontano da ogni attracco?

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

Her hatred is a living succubus, vast enough and quick enough and wicked enough to crest up from her heart and take wing, to expand across the hundreds of miles between them, to engulf the whole city of Acapulco, to veil the room in which he's standing, to overshadow him and overcome him, to slip into his mouth and choke him from the inside out. She hates him so much she can murder him from sixteen hundred miles away, just by wishing for it.

La distance biologique entre un chimpanzé sur son île du Parc zoologique de Paris et l'enfant qui le découvre, émerveillé, est bien plus courte que celle qui sépare le chimpanzé des macaques et des babouins qui s'agitent dans leur enclos, de l'autre côté de l'allée. Si le zoo hébergeait encore des gorilles, aux heures d'ouverture les plus proches parents seraient rassemblés : chimpanzés, gorilles et visiteurs.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

It seemed that the closer the girls got to Mrs. Tifton, the louder Skye squished, like a monster jellyfish with feet.

what filled the vast regions between

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

The further you move away from experiencing your emotions, the more distant you become from others, as well as from yourself.

Even fifteen years earlier, it would have been impossible, since there were very few cars (eight thousand as opposed to fourteen million horses) and fewer drivable roads. With the exception of train travel, the average American rarely ventured more than twelve miles from home, because that was the distance a horse and wagon could comfortably cover from there and back in a day.

Hickenlooper's guns had range on him.

pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic, even if only from a distance.

This quote I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.