- I Am
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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
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who claim to be in the know say Baros is nothing out of the ordinary as Maldivian islands go - that Reethi Ra is far more fashionable, Soneva Fushi more eco-compliant. Truth to tell, they all look pretty much alike from a distance.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embracing cultural distance, cultural distance nationalism, means in effect taking the position that our country will be better off with more whites than non-whites.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.
- Fanatics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have mixed feelings about Jerusalem. It is fascinating, it is beautiful, it is tragic, and it is extremely attractive to all kinds of fanatics or redeemers, world reformers, self-appointed prophets or messiahs. I find this fascinating, but I don't think I would like to live in the middle of this. I need my distance.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020