Top 100 From A Distance Quotes
#1. Ah, that groan, Alexis. It's like you are fucking me from a distance.
K.M. Golland
#2. I struggle with wanting to observe from a distance and get in people's faces. It's an uneasy contradiction.
Jo Treggiari
#3. 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
#4. I am best viewed from a distance ... and at night.
Jenny Eclair
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley
#8. It's easy to love someone from a distance
John Green
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Even from a distance you burn, you scorch anyone who gets too close.
Darynda Jones
#15. People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.
Richard J. Needham
#16. 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
#17. It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.
John Green
#18. Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance?
Alisia Compton
#19. At seventeen, I'm in-between. Staring at the carnival from a distance. Not sure if I want to go forward and become an adult; liking the view too much to turn back.
Kirsty Eagar
#20. Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
Andre Agassi
#22. [The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
Tim Berners-Lee
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
Thomas Hardy
#27. I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance.
Demetri Martin
#28. I like to prowl ordinary places
and taste the people-
from a distance.
Charles Bukowski
#29. As for the tank, not only is it unAmerican and probably subversive to eat without watching stereo but also the racket from it would interfere even with a directional mike aimed at us from a distance . . .
Robert A. Heinlein
#30. 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
#31. A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Jay-Z
#32. You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.
Morrissey
#34. It's easy to demonize from a distance.
Rick Warren
#35. 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
#36. Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.
Avijeet Das
#37. I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.
Sanhita Baruah
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen.
Alice Hoffman
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.
Taite Adams
#47. There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.
Joel Osteen
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. That's a big room up there, and a .38 doesn't have much accuracy from a distance.
Stephen King
#51. 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
#52. Our lives are a constellation of events, strung together, glittering; the shapes only being seen from a distance.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#53. You talk to me as if from a distance And I reply with impressions chosen from another time.
Brian Eno
#54. But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.
Anne Tyler
#55. Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.
Shane Koyczan
#56. The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation.
Sarah Brightman
#57. From a distance you only see my light; as I get closer and you see that I am you.
Rumi
#58. I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.
Lydia Davis
#59. Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom.
Simone Troisi
#60. Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.
Jerry Della Femina
#61. He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.
Amy Dickinson
#62. The reality, Haung knew, would be something quite different. From a distance, civilisation looks clean and desirable. Up close, the shine is dulled by self-interest and tarnished by greed.
G.R. Matthews
#63. Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
Tacitus
#64. But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.
Abbi Glines
#65. Sincere
that was the hell of it. From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a closer view, one saw the sincerity and it was as great as one's own. Perhaps Satan was the sincerest of the lot.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#66. Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.
Scott Westerfeld
#67. Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.
David Sedaris
#68. Sometimes your soul just can't let go of someone. They mean too much to you. Do you very best to love them from a distance. Love is the only thing that travels with clarity and doesn't have to be dissected, disputed or questioned.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. Autumn
The passion
Is still flourishing in the branches
Yellow funny and daring red
The sun warms even in the days
Where the fog
Stubbornly in the morning
From a distance
A woodpecker knocks
Impermanence
Is the enemy of beauty
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#71. Every storm has a brilliance, Dustin; has beauty when you look at it from a distance. It blurs all those incessant imperfections we seek to hollow out with each of our hopes. But when you step into its still center, when you see it's fury and its power, you also see its beauty; its grace.
Brandon Shire
#72. A man truly falls in love with a woman from a distance, as an observer, as a spectator taking in her true essence when she is unguarded, when she is wholly and honestly unaware of his attention. And she was.
Paul Cwalina
#73. It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
Stephan Pastis
#74. He had always admired his colleagues in the life and earth sciences who could hit the road on short notice with a fully stocked backpack and live rugged adventuresome lives in exotic locales. But he had admired them from a distance.
Neal Stephenson
#75. The sonic world of the foyer and vestibule comes at him distorted and from a distance, as if someone's moving furniture underwater.
Dominic Smith
#76. Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.
Michelle Tea
#77. But he's like a god. You worship the gods but you don't go out with them. You only like guys like that from a distance.
Cynthia Hand
#78. Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
Plato
#79. What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.
Bob Dylan
#80. I admire from a distance. Too close and the flaws form a craterous landscape and the charm is lost. Who do you think I am, Neil Armstrong?
Jarod Kintz
#81. What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different
Peyton J Glenn
#82. You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.
Sarah Hall
#83. Edmund would miss him, if no one else. And there hadn't been a single brown-haired little girl to play peekaboo with during church or an emerald-eyed beauty to watch from a distance. And he lived for the brief glimpses he had of Clara. Sweet, beautiful, loving Clara.
Sarah M. Eden
#85. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
Abhishek Vicky
#86. My life would be allegiance instead of love, fealty instead of friendship. I would weigh each decision, consider every action, trust no one. It would be life observed from a distance.
Leigh Bardugo
#87. But I'm liking staying here if it means I get to check out two hot chicks every morning." Crisis winked at me, but when he looked at Logan, he was backtracking. "From a distance. Like a mile. Maybe ten miles. Fuck, sorry sweet stuff, but not going to admire you at all. I'll just admire Kat.
Nashoda Rose
#88. I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
Damien Hirst
#89. En pointe she was a force, a tornado: safe to look at from a distance, but in close proximity, you risked being just another piece of her debris. Some days I thought I could only be so lucky.
Julie Murphy
#90. And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance.
Colm Toibin
#91. i feel small; but so are stars from a distance.
Efb Izzy
#92. How lucky you are, Noah. Everyone wants to enjoy you, even from a distance.
Pierce Smith
#93. You can't understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,
Bryan Stevenson
#94. You don't have to hate when it's not a sin to dislike someone or to love them from a distance.
L.M. Fields
#96. It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But comfort and isolation are not where the surprises are. They are not where hope is.
Anne Lamott
#97. And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to the things and people that have appeared to us beautiful and mysterious from a distance to be able to satisfy ourselves that they have neither mystery nor beauty.
Marcel Proust
#98. From a distance I finally see, I completely understand, As I move forward to take my second step, Followed by a third step, Oh! You are easy to love like a sponge.
Alon Calinao Dy
#99. I am small.
So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.
C. Kennedy
#100. That's where God watches us from: from a distance.
Chris Crutcher
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