Freedom from the world is, in principle, not asceticism, but rather a distance from the world for which all participation in things worldly takes place in the attitude of as if not.
Rudolf Karl Bultmann
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Hal Borland
If you let them make you, They'll make you paper mache. At a distance, you're strong, until the wind comes Then you crumble and blow away.
Brandon Boyd
High above the lake a bomber flies. From the rowing boats Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance They appear like young starlings, their beaks Wide open for food.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal in design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose: it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance-thrown hard and with precision
Roger Angell
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Denis Diderot
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement
Michael Korda
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Og Mandino
One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance.
Russian Proverb
Conversation shortens the distance, singing lightens the load.
Russian Proverb