These Distances Quotes

#1. Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these distances remain between people and forces, I think we'll be in a perpetual state of upheaval.

Harry Belafonte

#2. What did we lose, what was lost in us?
To whom do these distances belong that separated us
and that now bind us?

Are we still one
or have we both broken into pieces? How gentle this dust is-
Its body now, and mine, at this very minute
are one and the same

Adonis

#3. Our species has discovered a way to communicate through the dark, to transcend immense distances. No means of communication is faster or cheaper or reaches out farther. It's called radio.

Carl Sagan

#4. In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.

Hisham Matar

#5. The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.

Daniel Alarcon

#6. I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target.

Jackie Evancho

#7. If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.

Robert Cormier

#9. Rutherford showed how radio waves could travel long distances, penetrate walls, and magnetize iron.

Paul Halpern

#10. It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death ... I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.

William Styron

#11. The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Brian Eno

#12. In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.

Yoon Ha Lee

#13. During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#14. Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Alain De Botton

#15. I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result.

Roger Ebert

#16. I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.

Haruki Murakami

#17. The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

Gautama Buddha

#18. Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which relates "here" and "there." To put the conclusion rather crudely-space is not a lot of points close together; it is a lot of distances interlocked.

Arthur Eddington

#19. The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.

Rosita Forbes

#20. You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would, if only there weren't these great distances we need to put between us and the people we need to talk to.

Brock Clarke

#21. Man evolved to feel strongly about few people, short distances, and relatively brief intervals of time; and these are still the dimensions of life that are important to him.

Malcolm Gladwell

#22. I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.

Paul Auster

#23. The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

Hal Borland

#24. If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Elon Musk

#25. The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#26. In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

J. Donald Walters

#27. What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#28. I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Jacky Ickx

#29. Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Leo Tolstoy

#30. If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!

Richard Dawkins

#31. A snail is slow, but that does not prevent it from traveling great distances.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a distance and then come up close but find nothing more to see, it's printed too large. It's not giving me any new information when I come up to it.

Bruce Barnbaum

#33. What distances can be explored without God?

Sorin Cerin

#34. Near me nothing but distances.

Antonio Porchia

#35. Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#36. Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.

Pam Brown

#37. Light travels great distances, but has no legs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos.

Salman Rushdie

#39. Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have to master the resources of our solar system - especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances.

Gregory Benford

#40. The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

Ella Maillart

#41. We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

Jill Tarter

#42. Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

Dolph Lundgren

#43. Don't talk to me about the stars, about how cold and indifferent they are, about the unimaginable distances. There are millions of stars within us that are just as far, and people like me sometimes burn up a whole life trying to reach them.

Ted Kooser

#44. Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

Dorianne Laux

#45. Olidays far apart from each other, going short of things, hours of cold and solitude? Fears? Does money cut distances short, bring people together?

Gregoire Delacourt

#46. Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation.

Geoffrey Wood

#47. We're taking it a hundred miles north.
That's a hundred miles closer to where you are.
I've decided units and measurements of distance are bullshit.
With you there are only two distances that matter:
Here.
Not here.
You are not here.

Penny Reid

#48. The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

James Howard Kunstler