- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distance Quotes
How distance changes what we see and feel.
Several of these quotes treat distance as a matter of perspective - a fairy-land view of literature that loses its charm on closer approach, and a photographer describing every horizon as revealing another beyond it. See Far quotes for a related angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.
- Early Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually - a 'fade out' as I like to call it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020