Distance Quotes
More Distance Quotes
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)
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)
You are the strongest and the others keep their distance. It is no longer necessary to win victories over them.
taisen deshimaru— As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99
"David Cameron there, just a short walking distance away from our microphone."
eddie mair— After a tedious but far-away-sounding statement by David Cameron on the environment
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
joseph roux— Part 4, XCIX
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.
joseph addison— Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1699), st. 6.
The sun has only ever shone for me in France (it certainly did that!). I have got used to beating the streets of Paris, happy beyond words dreaming of a life 125 years long - with the Louvre radiant in the distance. (Chagall couldn’t go back to Paris because of the outbreak of the first World War, fh). Having ended up in the Russian provinces, << I have decided to die >>.
marc chagall— a letter to Sergei K. Markovsky, 1915; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 149
Last two soldiers on the battlefield survivors of the war they aim at one another while their mothers beg the lord "if you're listening, I'm missing him so somehow bring him home" how did it come to this? so the soldiers lift their rifles and they're aiming at the head they think of their first love before they take a final breath and somewhere in the distance they hear something someone said how did it come to this?
tomas kalnoky— "The Big Sleep," from "Everything Goes Numb" (2003)
Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action ( caeteris paribus ) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?
isaac newton— Query 1
The dominant role played by... exporters’ and importers’ GNP and distance in explaining trade flows.
— Jan Tinbergen, Shaping the world economy, 1962, p. 266
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance. They make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau— Letter to Lidian Emerson, May 22, 1843.
distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
james howell— James Howell, Familiar Letters, book i, section i, No. 6.
