Top 100 A Distance Quotes
#1. You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
Lars Von Trier
#2. But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
Maya Angelou
#3. That's a big room up there, and a .38 doesn't have much accuracy from a distance.
Stephen King
#4. I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.
Martin Amis
#5. Victims of misfortune are quick to sense another of their kind from a distance, but in old age they rarely become friends, which is in no way surprising: they have nothing to share together - not even hope.
Ivan Turgenev
#6. To get back to the original subject, most dragons prefer to be friends at a distance. Occasionally meet where the edges of our territories join - that sort of thing. Chat, exchange news, perhaps play a round of the riddle game, then go our separate ways.
Mercedes Lackey
#7. There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.
Joel Osteen
#8. I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.
Jim Shepard
#9. I frowned unsure why all of those things meant he needed to keep me at a distance.
Abbi Glines
#10. Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
Janet Morris
#11. I still have that fear, even now - that suddenly my very existence will be denied and, through no fault of my own, I'll be hurled into the night sea once more. Maybe that's why I haven't been able to form deep relationships with people. I always keep a distance between me and others." He
Haruki Murakami
#12. Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
Henry Knox
#13. We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.
Taite Adams
#14. Like the majority of irreproachably virtuous women, wearying often of the monotony of a virtuous life, Dolly from a distance excused illicit love, and even envied it a little.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.
Bruce Chatwin
#16. The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
Beth Simone Noveck
#17. We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes
or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.
Max Frisch
#18. Let's not muddy the brook ; Perhaps a pigeon is drinking water at a distance, Or a pitcher is being filled in a village, Or a dervish may be dipping dry bread in the brook.
The folk upstream understand the water.
They did not muddy the brook. We also must not muddy the brook...
Sohrab Sepehri
#19. The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And you: keep at a distance. If you approach too near, you let yourself be caught. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#20. He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.
M. John Harrison
#21. I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were departing for many years and for a distant country.
Charlotte Bronte
#22. It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
Owen Feltham
#23. The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.
Vironika Tugaleva
#24. If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.
Bruce Lee
#25. He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.
Jennifer Lane
#26. Anyone who's lived in Manhattan all his life always feels torn whenever he leaves it. There's the satisfaction of breaking free, for a time. But that's balanced heavily by the feeling of leaving your whole life behind, and to see it from a distance.
Rachel Cohn
#27. Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.
Rajneesh
#28. She: Why was there a distance between you and me?
He: Distance makes us realize how much we miss someone.
She: Did you realize that?
He: I did.
She: How much did you miss me?
He: Every breath of mine had your name in it!
Avijeet Das
#29. Unlikely a handgun any more because it was around that time that the CorpSeCorps was confiscating those, having raised the spurious banner of civic safety and thus effectively securing a monopoly for themselves on killing at a distance.
Margaret Atwood
#30. At night I leave the lights on in my little house and walks across the flat fields. When I look back from a distance the house is like a boat on the sea. It's really the only time I feel safe.
Will Graham
#31. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle
Bohdi Sanders
#32. She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.
Larry McMurtry
#33. Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money - the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse.
Elizabeth Bowen
#34. Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
Doug Aitken
#35. It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen.
Alice Hoffman
#38. From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.
Andrea Hirata
#39. There are moments in life when everything changes. Sometimes these moments come out of nowhere, ambushing you. Sometimes they approach from a distance and arrive so slowly and expectedly that change is nothing to be surprised about.
Randi Zuckerberg
#40. Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#41. 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.
Elizabeth Peters
#42. I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.
Sanhita Baruah
#43. When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#44. Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.
Avijeet Das
#45. 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.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#46. History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#47. It's easy to demonize from a distance.
Rick Warren
#48. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.
Shane Claiborne
#51. The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye ...
David Benioff
#52. You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.
Morrissey
#53. It took the mind of Albert Einstein, the twentieth century's most brilliant and influential, to show that we can more accurately describe gravity's action-at-a-distance as a warp in the fabric of space-time, produced by any combination of matter and energy.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#54. A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Jay-Z
#55. Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phaenomena of Nature?
Isaac Newton
#56. Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.
William Boyd
#57. The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.
Miguel De Cervantes
#58. All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
Samuel Richardson
#59. In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.
Susan Sontag
#60. We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
George MacDonald Fraser
#61. At a distance you only see my light ...
Come closer and Know that I am You
Rumi
#62. The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.
Confucius
#63. I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
Jim Bishop
#64. I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne
#65. Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#66. I struggle with wanting to observe from a distance and get in people's faces. It's an uneasy contradiction.
Jo Treggiari
#67. I plan on getting out there and mixing with the crowd. I want to show everyone what happens in Times Square not from a distance, but from right there in the crowd.
Regis Philbin
#68. How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
John Banville
#69. I am best viewed from a distance ... and at night.
Jenny Eclair
#70. All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
Jean De La Bruyere
#71. There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly.
Warren Ellis
#72. He watched them from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing." - Bran
George R R Martin
#73. There is something about my face in the mirrors that catch it. Even at a distance it will never be right again, not even to a casual glance. Beauty: it's the upkeep that costs, that's what Balzac said, not the initial investment.
Joanna Walsh
#74. He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#75. It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.
Peter Sarsgaard
#76. Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley
#77. 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
#78. It's easy to love someone from a distance
John Green
#79. He treated her like a china doll that needed to sit on a high shelf and be admired but never handled. Marietta didn't want to be admired from a distance. She wanted to be touched. Held. Embraced. By him.
Karen Witemeyer
#80. It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
Steven Saylor
#82. I don't much care for all this talk of God washing away all my dirt. I like a bit of grit around the edges. It gives me character and does a passable job of faking depth, from a distance.
Thomm Quackenbush
#83. 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
#84. Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.
Colm Toibin
#85. Encapsulation is broken because all functions in the path of a throw must know about details of that low-level exception. Given that the purpose of exceptions is to allow you to handle errors at a distance, it is a shame that checked exceptions break encapsulation in this way.
Robert C. Martin
#86. From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate the whole of creation, in whole or in certain parts.
Paul Otlet
#87. Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the power of language to map a life, to overcome a distance, to focus attention on what matters most.
Scott Russell Sanders
#88. The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.
Confucius
#90. How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
H.G.Wells
#91. A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,
Nelson Mandela
#92. You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?"
"It's a distance that can't be measured."
"Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.
Haruki Murakami
#93. Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.
Mary Russell Mitford
#94. Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.
Ingrid Newkirk
#95. In the space between our bodies
there is a cup holder filled with pennies
a distance which can often take years to cross
Mira Gonzalez
#96. If I must have pity, then I do not want to be called such; and if I do have pity, then rather from a distance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#97. The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
#98. There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson
#99. It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.
Alice Hoffman
#100. He thought about telling them of his own single, haunting detail. But he didn't want to add to the horror, and nor did he want to give life to the image while it remained at a distance, held there by wine and companionship.
Ian McEwan
