Distanciation Quotes

#1. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

Sol Luckman

#2. We are in such a habit of evaluating God and His work in us by what we feel that it is very likely that on some occasions we will be discouraged because we do not feel any special blessing. Above everything, when you wait on God, you must do so in the spirit of hope.

Andrew Murray

#3. I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.

Alberto Moravia

#4. When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.

Origen

#5. Still, though."
"Right. Exactly.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Gloria Steinem

#7. I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Steven Pinker

#8. Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Saint Augustine

#9. Are you a political prisoner, Dooley?"
Her blue eyes, immense now in her gaunt face, turned a pitying gaze on the reporter who'd asked her this. "Yes," she said. "And so are you.

Sigrid Nunez

#10. I am here, Bella. Let me cherish you as you deserve.
- Sebastian Stanhope

Diana Quincy

#11. There's a reason why you never see large-chested women finishing marathons first. They've been beaten to death by their breasts around Mile 5. It ain't pretty.

Dawn Dais