(376 quotes found)
“Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player”
Albert Einstein
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
Charles Darwin
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board”
Zora Neale Hurston
“The shortest distance between two points is under construction.”
Leo Aikman
“When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death”
Emily Dickinson
“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.”
John Shirley
“The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible”
Washington Irving
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
Madame Marie du Deffand
“Thing is, it's very easy to be righteous from a distance. It's his life. It's not my business to say what is wrong or right.”
Daniel Radcliffe
“Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.”
Edwin Way Teale
