Quotes About Distance

How difficult it was to hold the eyes focussed on that far horizon when this world lay in the foreground so compelling in its splendour and its strength!

it's sometimes wise to add rather than remove communication barriers—and physical distance is one of the most protective barriers.

To a European, a hundred miles is a big journey; to an American, a hundred years is a long time.

wondering if he could hear him from the other side. Jess

I made that horn sound like it never had before; I made it cry for all the miles and years that separated them.

I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living.

We wished our two souls might return like gulls to the rock. In the end, the water was too cold for us.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.

Walking Distance: Extraordinary Hikes for Ordinary People).

twenty yards to go—he could see a laundry truck rumbling by on the street—and

The five familiar and well-defined relationship patterns, as described by Bowen, are: Conflict Distance Cutoff Dysfunctional spouse (also called over/underfunctioning reciprocity) Dysfunctional child (also called triangling)

Of course I long for her, but in honesty I must say that I would rather long for her than have her continuously present. Travel agents assure us that 'getting there is half the fun'; I might say with at least equal truth that longing is some of the best of loving.

A crying child's voice will carry half across England. Is there still no news?

He winced at her efforts to mollify him. Why didn't she say she was disgusted with his behaviour, with his long absence, his infrequent superficial letters? And if she did say it - would he defend himself? Would he give reasons, try to explain how meaningless every endeavour seemed to him? No. For then she would start crying again, he would tell her to stop being silly, she would ask for details, and he would tell her to mind her own business.

polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity

Rockefeller followed Flagler's business adventures in Florida with sympathy but at a distance.

and no real warmth existed between the two

Bill had relatively little contact with his rich sons, John and William, but was extremely close to the envious Frank, who shared his love of fishing and hunting.

Jack often seemed embarrassed by his remoteness from Pierpont.

Hubble's law: There is a linear relationship between recessional velocity and galaxy distance. Namely, galaxies that are ever more distant are moving away from us with faster velocities!

He thought of asking her, but for no reason he could name, the silence between them seemed too hard to break.

A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

The best defense against knives was distance. The best countermove was entanglement.

Three weapons firing. Long guns. All the same. Distinctive. Flat solid barks, and the crack of fast bullets in the air. NATO rounds out of M16s, if Reacher was a gambling man. All of them so far missing. Understandable. It was a deceptive shot. Two hundred yards, absolutely flat, eye to eye. Except it was absolutely curved, because it was part of a spherical planet. Hence the miscalculation.