Quotes About Distanced

#1. I'm burning in despair
Love which you distanced from me
Return once again
I'll forgive you again
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Delicious David

#2. And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Gavin Hood

#3. There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Laura Esquivel

#4. I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.

Gail Simone

#5. There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

Michael Mann

#6. She had missed him so long now, that the feeling had become a part of her. As each day passed, the missing distanced itself from her heart. One day she woke, and realized the missing was there but the pain was gone. Missing without pain is tolerable. Pain linked to heartache is intolerable.

Coco J. Ginger

#7. As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

Ann Rinaldi

#8. I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.

John Malkovich

#9. Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Oli Anderson

#10. Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love?

Galt Niederhoffer

#11. Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#12. people who enter into an intercultural marriage have already distanced themselves somewhat from a strict adherence to many of the predominant values of their own society.

Wendy Williams

#13. We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold and empty beneath the covers.

Patri Friedman

#14. In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#15. People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Denise Mina

#16. I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

Jennifer Ehle

#17. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

Miyamoto Musashi

#18. I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Alan Moore

#19. Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

Olivia Wilde

#20. When I arrive in Los Angeles in the entertainment community, and I use implements like a shovel and a hammer, our society has distanced itself so far from working with its hands that those incredibly pedestrian skills are perceived as somehow being extraordinary.

Nick Offerman

#21. Do I want to, can I face my own pain alone now? Shock keeps horror at bay. Hands off. Distanced by mist and pride and drink and friends and necessities like food, babies, fires ... So the pain sits still, crouching, heavy, occupying all my inside, always, all the time, whatever my outside does.

Elizabeth Smart

#22. Because when we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process.

Lawana Blackwell

#23. He, Cromwell, watches. They are not the same couple from day to day: sometimes doting, sometimes chilly and distanced. The billing and cooing, on the whole, is the more painful to watch.
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Hilary Mantel

#24. Texas Governor Rick Perry distanced himself from George W. Bush by saying, 'I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.' In other words, his idea of instilling confidence is by saying, 'Don't worry. I'm not as smart as George W. Bush.'

Conan O'Brien

#25. The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.

Mario Monti

#26. Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense of justice. Being a bad person has more to do with a lack of regard for others and an inability to control one's appetites.

Paul Bloom

#27. We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.

Jason Upton

#28. Journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.

Andrea Mitchell

#29. I mean that's my entire life right there. I re-evaluted everybody in my life. I narrowed it down to the people that really cared about me. And did away with everybody else. Just kind of distanced myself. Same thing with the producers.

Willa Ford

#30. For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But now, for the first time since Centeral America, Jack Twist had the need, the desire, and ability to reach out to society around him, to make friends.

Dean Koontz

#31. He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#32. 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

J.G. Ballard

#33. If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

#34. Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

Gloria Steinem