Distance Quotes
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We are not to be amazed that in the archaeological material of Pelagonia we have a rarely great wealth of reflections of all pronounced cultural events in the relations between middle-Danubian and Graeco-Aegean world [...] In a such great chronological distance in the life of ancient Pelagonia two stages are visible: development and existence in the frames of Hellenic culture and later the Roman one.
Ivan Mikulcic— Ethnic Macedonian archaeologist, "Pelagonija", Skopje (1966, p. 2, 4)
With eyes up-raised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Poured thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.
william collins— 'The Passions, An Ode for Music', lines 57-61 (1747)
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
— Anaximander, as quoted in "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible" in The Watchtower (1 October 1980).
Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away wakens the slumbering ages.
henry taylor— Philip van Artevelde, Act I, scene 7 (1834).
Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Personal Talk, stanza 2.
Separation isn't time or distance it's the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords
nazim hikmet— From Separation (6 June 1960)
Yevtushenko has?an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of 20 feet.
John William Cheever— Recalled on Cheever's death,18 Jun1982.
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.
Pierre L van den Berghe— 'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself – that is the concern of the individualist.
marsden hartley— statement for catalogue of Forum exhibition 1916, reprinted in On art, p. 66-67, as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 57
There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
mary magdalene— Matthew 27:55 (English Standard Version)
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality’s laws – poorly understood and applied – are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.
constantine p. cavafy— The Regiment of the Senses as translated by Manuel Savidis
At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible . Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.
joseph goebbels— Abends sitze ich auf meinem Zimmer und lese die Bibel. In der Ferne braust das Meer. Dann liege ich noch lange wach und denke an den stillen, bleichen Mann von Nazareth.
I wrote a little song for you With a melody I'd borrowed put to words that didn't rhyme To repeat what you already knew; As the stones thrown at your window tapped in syncopation, You kept a distance out of fear you'd break, But what good's a single windchime, hanging quiet all alone?
aaron weiss— In a Market Dimly Lit.
O, marvelous power of the Divine seed, which overpowers the strong man armed, softens obdurate hearts, and changes into divine men those who were brutalized in sin, and removed to an infinite distance from God.
— John Wycliffe, p. 288. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
— As quoted in "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible" in The Watchtower (1 October 1980)
Freedom is only the distance between the hunter and his prey.
Zhenkai pen name Beo Dao Zhao— c.1989 'Answer', collected in Donald Finkel A Splintered Mirror (1991).
Whatever happens to me from now on, I can't ever imagine wanting to distance myself from The X Factor, or having a bad word to say about it, because the show opened doors for me that had never opened before.
leona lewis— Daily Mail, October 2007
The wind came steadily, like the rushing of a great cataract heard at a great distance, but the noises of the sea were continually changing, rising and falling, with the stupendous modulations of an orchestra played by giants.
Liam O'Flaherty— "The Landing", from Spring Sowing (1924; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926) p. 70
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Address to Kilchurn Castle.
[The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.
kenneth boulding— p.245According to Marike Finlay (1987) Powermatics: A Discursive Critique of New Technology. p.200 with this statement "Kenneth Boulding has shown, the extent of control is a function of loss-of-strength gradient of a political centre."
Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm, And age, like distance, lends a double charm.
— Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.
A kiss would kill me, woman, If beauty were not death... By what attraction Am I drawn, what morn forgotten by the prophets That pours on the dying distance its sad rites?
stéphane mallarmé— Hérodiade (Hérodiade (1898))
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
alan turing— p. 460 (Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950))
Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.
henry taylor— Henry Taylor, Philip Van Artevelde, Part I, Act I, scene 7.
Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
— Thomas Carlyle, p. 204. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The way to heaven out of all places is of like length and distance.
— Sir Thomas More, Utopia
distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
james howell— James Howell, Familiar Letters, book i, section i, No. 6.
