Quotes with distance

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  • Andy Goldsworthy Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Zora Neale Hurston Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
    Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
    and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
    The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
    Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Jean Paul Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Michael Korda Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • William Wordsworth t Is distance lends enchantment to the View.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Karl Kraus The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bob Mayer The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Jane Austen The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Bill Dedman The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Beth Simone Noveck The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The very least you can do in your life is to 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
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson There are charms made only for distance admiration.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Og Mandino There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Ivan Illich There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Aaron Copland There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Dorothy Parker There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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