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I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Though personally I'm not a fan of celebrating with fireworks, it is beautiful to watch the sight from a distance.
The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
One thing that I like from a coach is that they don't put up too big a distance between the player and the trainer.
When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.
It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.
When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.
Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.
I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.
Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.
I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.
I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.
Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.
The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is
I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.
It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.
People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.