Social Distancing Quotes

#1. My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

John Malkovich

#2. I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.

Ilona Andrews

#3. Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

Daniel O'Connell

#4. You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

Temple Grandin

#5. While you were out JUDGING others, you left your closet door open...and guess what fell out!....Ooops

Karen Gibbs

#6. Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.

Mary Docter

#7. Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

Mike McCue

#8. I get the sense that his word is always the last spoken and his wishes the first ones to be fulfilled. He doesn't ask, he demands. He doesn't hope, he expects.

Mia Asher

#9. I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside them.

Victor Hugo

#11. Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

Yitzhak Rabin

#12. As American society grows more elitist, it produces a worse caliber of elites. The

Christopher L. Hayes

#13. I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.

Ofra Strauss

#14. I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of learn the ropes of songwriting there - like how to do acoustic, country-esque songs, which I like because there's so much story in them.

Katy Perry

#15. As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It's not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

Scott Lynch