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Image of Robert Olen Butler
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
- Robert Olen Butler
Collection: Distance
Image of Beryl Markham
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.
- Beryl Markham
Collection: Distance
Image of William Trevor
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.
- William Trevor
Collection: Distance
Image of Rebecca Solnit
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.
- Rebecca Solnit
Collection: Distance
Image of Barbara Mertz
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.
- Barbara Mertz
Collection: Distance
Image of Paul Cornell
Distance is always helpful, and the fact that I'm a U.S. politics junkie helps a lot.
- Paul Cornell
Collection: Distance
Image of Robert Penn Warren
A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.
- Robert Penn Warren
Collection: Distance
Image of Amy Bloom
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
- Amy Bloom
Collection: Distance
Image of Yitzhak Rabin
You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.
- Yitzhak Rabin
Collection: Distance
Image of Rohinton Mistry
Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
- Rohinton Mistry
Collection: Distance
Image of Richard J. Foster
Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.
- Richard J. Foster
Collection: Distance
Image of Frank Borman
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.
- Frank Borman
Collection: Distance
Image of Frank Borman
I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the Earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape - it makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away, it really is a small planet.
- Frank Borman
Collection: Distance
Image of Sally Ride
When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.
- Sally Ride
Collection: Distance
Image of Lev S. Vygotsky
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers
- Lev S. Vygotsky
Collection: Distance
Image of Rabih Alameddine
I need to have one foot inside and one foot outside a culture to be able to write about it. For example, I couldn't write about the gay culture if I were wholly inside or outside of it. Finding that distance is always interesting. I jokingly say that when I'm in America, I write about Beirut, and when I'm in Beirut, I write about America. A lot of my friends in Beirut think I'm more American than Lebanese. Here, my friends think of me more as Lebanese.
- Rabih Alameddine
Collection: Distance
Image of Spencer W. Kimball
I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.
- Spencer W. Kimball
Collection: Distance
Image of Pratibha Patil
Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.
- Pratibha Patil
Collection: Distance
Image of Lynn Austin
No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Distance
Image of David O. Russell
The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.
- David O. Russell
Collection: Distance
Image of Gay Hendricks
Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.
- Gay Hendricks
Collection: Distance
Image of Rob Thurman
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.
- Rob Thurman
Collection: Distance
Image of Charles Francis Richter
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance from the source; it will also depend on local conditions at the point of observation, and to some extent on the conditions along the path from source to that point.
- Charles Francis Richter
Collection: Distance
Image of François-René de Chateaubriand
There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived. These consequences often contradict each other; ... look to the end of an accomplished fact, and you will see that it has always produced the contrary of what was expected from it.
- François-René de Chateaubriand
Collection: Distance
Image of Jodi Picoult
He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.
- Jodi Picoult
Collection: Distance
Image of Franz Wright
I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
- Franz Wright
Collection: Distance
Image of Israel Zangwill
The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.
- Israel Zangwill
Collection: Distance
Image of Nadeem Aslam
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
- Nadeem Aslam
Collection: Distance
Image of Andrew Sullivan
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.
- Andrew Sullivan
Collection: Distance
Image of Andrew Sullivan
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.
- Andrew Sullivan
Collection: Distance
Image of Victor Pelevin
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.
- Victor Pelevin
Collection: Distance
Image of Dee Dee Ramone
I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.
- Dee Dee Ramone
Collection: Distance
Image of Dee Dee Ramone
The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.
- Dee Dee Ramone
Collection: Distance
Image of Stephan Pastis
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
- Stephan Pastis
Collection: Distance
Image of John Wyndham
And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that they fail clumsily. My love flowed out to her, hers back to me. Mine stroked and soothed. Hers caressed. The distance - and the difference - between us dwindled and vanished. We could meet, mingle, and blend. Neither one of us existed any more; for a time there was a single being that was both. There was escape from the solitary cell; a brief symbiosis, sharing all the word.
- John Wyndham
Collection: Distance
Image of Steve Almond
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.
- Steve Almond
Collection: Distance
Image of G. M. Trevelyan
I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Collection: Distance
Image of Simon Newcomb
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.
- Simon Newcomb
Collection: Distance
Image of Delphine de Vigan
All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as though I were the only one able to hear the sounds or words that other's can't, and deaf to the words that they hear. As if I'm outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window.
- Delphine de Vigan
Collection: Distance
Image of George Edward Moore
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.
- George Edward Moore
Collection: Distance
Image of Charles Simic
Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.
- Charles Simic
Collection: Distance
Image of Gao Xingjian
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.
- Gao Xingjian
Collection: Distance
Image of David Bentley Hart
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.
- David Bentley Hart
Collection: Distance
Image of Ruskin Bond
How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.
- Ruskin Bond
Collection: Distance
Image of Drew Brees
Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.
- Drew Brees
Collection: Distance
Image of Guillaume Musso
He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?
- Guillaume Musso
Collection: Distance
Image of Chris Bohjalian
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.
- Chris Bohjalian
Collection: Distance