982 Quotes About Distance

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

I'm more relaxed since I met Vanessa, I have more distance and therefore I have more perspective,

I like very selfishly and very simply keeping a distance from Hollywood and the social expectations from Hollywood because I'm not good at that kind of game,

He is a tough kid, but he has a lot to learn about distance running. When he learns it, look out.

So that when you look from a distance you see glitter from all three sides, not just the top.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.