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The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
— Diogenes Laertius
Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance.
— Kate Atkinson
The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same thing, it's at a distance.
— Joyce Carol Oates
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
— E. M. Forster
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
— Dale Carnegie
Spooky action at a distance.
— Albert Einstein
Food is the distance you can travel in a day, and the cold you can withstand at night.
— Catherine M. Wilson
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
— Mary Astell
Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.
— Will Durant
She only ever saw him at a great distance, and doesn't even know what his true face looked like. She wishes she did. And
— Laini Taylor
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.
— Joseph Glanvill
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
— Seneca The Younger
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
— Max Beerbohm
I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
— Andreas Gursky
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
— Elizabeth Goudge
The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.
— Matthew Henry
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
— William Shenstone
The sonic world of the foyer and vestibule comes at him distorted and from a distance, as if someone's moving furniture underwater.
— Dominic Smith
Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join
— John Henry Newman
Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money - the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse.
— Elizabeth Bowen
The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side
— Russell Lynes
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. — Corrie Ten Boom
How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?
— Steve Martin
Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.
— Ingrid Newkirk
At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.
— George Washington
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
— Mary Augusta Ward
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
— Aphra Behn
Even at a distance, her mouth showed the small pursed conceit of a remark in the making.
— Don DeLillo
I am best viewed from a distance ... and at night.
— Jenny Eclair
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly.
— Warren Ellis
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
— Susan Sontag
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
— Karl Kraus
The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
— Walter Isaacson
Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
— Ilka Chase
Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
— Abhishek Vicky
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.
— Benjamin Franklin
A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
— George Orwell
At a distance, they looked just boring enough to be important.
— Craig Schaefer
Trouble is, I love better at a distance...
— Ashe Vernon
We can love anyone at a safe distance, but loving people in the thick of their mess takes the supernatural love of Jesus working in us.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
— Amy Bloom
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
— Theodore Hesburgh
A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
— Stendhal
Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
— Seneca The Younger
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
— Beth Simone Noveck
Some men look larger at a distance.
— George R R Martin
I looked over at him, running in the distance. Another faulty, fucked-up brain in a healthy body.
— S.J. Watson
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
— Samuel Richardson
Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.
— Jonathan Nolan
He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
— Samuel Johnson
In truth, feeling love from a distance is just lonely. Maybe even worse than no love at all, because it feels so unnatural.
— Amanda Palmer
Were you happy?" "If you look at things from a distance," I said as I swallowed some lobster, "most anything looks beautiful.
— Haruki Murakami
All know that they must die; but many are deceived by picturing to themselves death at such a distance as if it could never come near them.
— Alfonso Maria De Liguori
One can love one's neighbours in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I'm a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.
— Lea Michele
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.
— David Shields
My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.
— Stephanie Laurens
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle
— Bohdi Sanders
I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
— Cillian Murphy
