Keeping A Distance Quotes

#1. I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

Simone Elkeles

#2. Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them ... mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.

Javier Marias

#3. He shook his head, his eyes so full of sadness that it made her chest ache. You want me when you need me, but the rest of the time I'm not worthy. I doona blame you. I'm not worthy. Not yet anyway. You've been alone for so long that you've gotten used to keeping everyone at a distance, and I'm

Donna Grant

#4. When you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen.

Liane Moriarty

#5. She was afraid to love me," Nancy said. "I never realized it. By keeping her distance, she thought she could protect me. If she didn't love me, maybe I would escape notice. I would survive.

Emilie Richards

#6. There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

Vance Havner

#7. Jackson's presence in New York had everything to do with the other Carrington sister.

He'd been keeping his distance. He'd had to. But today he didn't want to. He wanted to see her. Needed to see her.

He needed Mollie.

Lauren Layne

#8. Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#9. I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.

Karen Elson

#10. Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

Alexis Carrel

#11. And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance

Brennan Manning

#12. Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

Mohsin Hamid

#13. You understood that proof of your friendship lay in keeping your distance, in accepting what was told you, in turning and walking away when the door was shut in your face instead of trying to force it open again.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

Luis Miguel

#15. I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Jodi Picoult

#16. The only ones who have been silenced forever are the dead. The rest, even in the distance, still remain sons of the fatherland, keeping its memory alive and ennobling our language with their words.

Maria Duenas

#17. Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.

Dante Alighieri

#19. What the hell war isn't unpopular?

Scott Eyman

#20. Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

Frederic Tcheng

#21. I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

Fran Lebowitz

#22. A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance.

Pete Dexter

#23. You're killing me," he told her, panting, his palms sliding down over her ribs to explore the rest of her
shape - her waist, her hips, her thighs. "Killing me by inches." He lifted his body from hers enough to
yank up her skirt. "But it's a damn fine way for a man to die.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#24. I know I'm about to do something wrong. It just has to be the right wrong.

Matthew C. Funk

#25. A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

Laozi

#26. I find I serve the world best by keeping my distance and freedom.

Thomas Merton

#27. When the automobile was made affordable to the masses, people moved further away from work and further away from stores. While transportation speed increased, transportation distance increased proportionally, keeping transportation time constant.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#28. Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

Lana Del Rey

#29. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen

Peter Slevin

#30. Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.

Andy Serkis

#31. If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

Jeremy Sisto

#32. I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Mary Gardiner Brainard

#33. When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Ann Beattie

#34. Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

George Saunders

#35. if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.

Carla Buckley

#37. Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb