Quotes by Distance 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. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control. Aaron Copland distance music way Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between. Aaron Hill distance writing mean If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people. Aaron Levie distance levels people But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone. Abbi Glines distance jail love-you Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live. Abraham Isaac Kook distance dimensions reality Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. Abraham Lincoln distance writing art Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. Abraham Lincoln distance space mind Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions. A.C.H. Smith distance eye taken People tend to keep their distance. Adam Ant distance people If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame. Adam Duritz shame distance life-is I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick. Adam Ferrara distance long believe The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough. Adam Gopnik distance simple believe Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of. Adyashanti distance spiritual thinking It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. Aesop distance army courage The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts. Agnes Baker Pilgrim distance mind heart whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts. Agnes Repplier distance cat dog When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night. Ai Yazawa distance taken memories God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years. Aiden Wilson Tozer distance writing book Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend. Aimee Carter distance sweet love 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 distance mind joy 1234567891011»