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Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.
One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.
I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.
A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!
The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.
Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it.
I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.
For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.
Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.
You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.
Come here. I need to hold on to you." She felt the same way. And when there was no distance between them, it was like coming home.
Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.
Toronto is my home. It's where my family is. I think I feel an obligation to be within subway distance of the people who raised me.
But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.
If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!