Distance Quotes
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.
Helen Keller -
Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
Ziad Abdelnour
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If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.
Alexandra Pelosi -
Usually I'll have fruit with breakfast, but not on the day of the race, as sometimes it's difficult to digest. When racing Olympic distance, I'll have my last meal three hours before the race, and during the race I'll have a gel. I think it's enough.
Francisco Javier Gomez Noya -
Never judge a journey by the distance.
Jacqueline Winspear -
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.
Ethel Smyth -
One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.
Carroll Quigley
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
Seneca the Younger -
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
Suzan-Lori Parks -
The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.
Simon Sinek -
You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.
Nicolas Ghesquiere -
I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.
Susannah Cahalan -
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
Evangelista Torricelli
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The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.
Rick Atkinson -
We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.
Hirokazu Kore-eda -
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.
Jerry Della Femina -
David Cameron there, just a short walking distance away from our microphone.
Eddie Mair
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The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.
John Locke Nazareth -
We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.
Caster Semenya -
I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
Regina Spektor