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Distance Quotes (page 6)

Every prisoner knows perfectly that he is a convict and a reprobate, and knows the distance which separates him from his superiors; but neither the branding irons nor chains will make him forget that he is a man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
He liked to talk about the anatomy of racecars, motorcycles, hunting rifles, how things work, and she liked to listen. It was a mark of the distance between them that she listened so eagerly, the perennial miles, the weeks and months Don DeLillo
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance. George Orwell
…Changing yourself to fit what you think other people want doesn’t work. Pretending to be someone other than yourself only broadens the distance between the person you are and the one with whom you’re trying to establish closeness. Mary Manin Morrissey
You never give such relationships a thought, To give a thought, to take a thought is a function of dissociation, distance. You can't exercise memory until you've removed yourself from memory's source. Joyce Carol Oates
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached. Fernando Pessoa
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points."
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Madeleine L'Engle
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. Herman Hesse
At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong. Blaise Pascal
HE had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions a arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dung hill of war, the more the was resembled Amarant. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. Leonardo da Vinci
To work, her dumb lunge says, is to move a certain mass... through a certain distance, is to pull your weight and feelexact and equal to it. Feel dragged upon. And buoyant. Seamus Heaney
It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too. Cormac McCarthy
Corrie Ten Boom quote: "Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality..."
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. Corrie Ten Boom
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and..."
He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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