From A Distance Quotes

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

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?

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.

'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.

I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.

It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the prodigal son while he was at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him.

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart

We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know.

I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

I'm a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

I believe that Lady Gaga is like a carnival ride. From a distance she looks fun, but up close, you don't wanna climb on that.

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.