From A Distance Quotes

From A Distance Quote of the day

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance.

When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

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.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Things must be felt with the heart.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.

Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.