#distance

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#course #destination #distance #historical #line

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. ↗

— Keren Ann

#come #distance #enough #jump #need

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#distance #governed #governments #their #weakening

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' ↗

— David Byrne

#call #civic #distance #doing #engagement

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#after #been #contact #continue #distance

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. ↗

— David Trimble

#behind #dark #distance #forward #future

I managed to beat Michael Phelps’ 400 meter IM time. And not only did I beat his time, but I did it in exactly 200 meters.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #compete #competition #competitive #delusional

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#perspective #life

Ne t'est-il jamais arrivé de découvrir quelque chose de très beau, et, soudain, de souffrir très fort, et si vite que tu t'en aperçois à peine, parce que ce fragment de beauté que tu contemples, tu devrais le partager avec quelqu'un et qu'il n'y a que l'absence ? ↗

— Jacques Abeille

#love #missing #love

Meskipun raga kita berjarak, namun hati kita selalu bersama. Hatiku dan hatimu tak berjarak. ↗

— Hilda Nurina Sabikah

#love #romance #love