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)
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).
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).
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.
Yul had simply launched himself at the guy from some distance away, and body-checked him at full speed, stopping on a dime in midair as he transferred all of his energy into the target. "Conservation of momentum," he announced, "it's not just a good idea it's the law !"
neal stephenson— Yulassetar Crade removes a TV reporter in zero gravity, Part 12, "Requiem"
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))
There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance
Dodinsky— In the Garden of Thoughts (2013)
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)
Golf is a game that is played on a five inch course the distance between your ears.
Bobby Jones— Quoted in Colin Jarman, The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
I didn't go to the moon, I went much furtherfor time is the longest distance between two places.
— 1945 Tom.The Glass Menagerie, sc.7.
Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.
lewis h. lapham— Chapter 3, The Golden Horde, p. 58
Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.
Robertson Davies— Alchemy in the Theatre (1994)
For such is the nature of men , that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty , or more eloquent , or more learned ; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand , and other men's at a distance.
thomas hobbes— The First Part, Chapter 13, p. 61
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.
richard russo— Epilogue (Straight Man (1997))
Translation: The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.
konstantin eduardovich tsiolkovsky— from "The Successes of Air Balloons in the XIX Century", 1901 [5]
To all appearance, the phenomena exhibited by the pendulum are not to be accounted for by impact: in fact, it is usually assumed that corresponding phenomena would take place if the earth and the pendulum were situated in an absolute vacuum, and at any conceivable distance from one another. If this be so, it follows that there must be two totally different kinds of causes of motion: the one impact a vera causa [true cause], of which, to all appearance, we have constant experience; the other, attractive or repulsive 'force' a metaphysical entity which is physically inconceivable.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, 'The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1889)
The Corporation of Chennai (previously Madras) is the Oldest Municipal Institution in India established on the 29th September 1688. A charter was issued on the 30 December 1607 by East Indian Company constituting the "Town of Fort St. George" and all the territories thereunto belonging, not exceeding the distance of ten miles from the Fort, into a Corporation.
— Corporation of Chennai, in About Corporation of Chennai
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.… all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
Giannina Braschi— In Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)
If men attempt the discussion of questions which lie entirely beyond the reach of human capacity, such as those concerning the origin of worlds, or the economy of the intellectual system or region of spirits, they may long beat the air in their fruitless contests, and never arrive at any determinate conclusion. But if the question regard any subject of common life and experience, nothing, one would think, could preserve the dispute so long undecided but some ambiguous expressions, which keep the antagonists still at a distance, and hinder them from grappling with each other.
— David Hume, in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), VIII: Of Liberty and Necessity, Part I
