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I am best viewed from a distance. -- Jenny Eclair
It's easy to demonize from a distance. -- Rick Warren
I am best viewed from a distance... and at night. -- Jenny Eclair
You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance. -- Sarah Hall
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance. -- Helmut Jahn
I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. -- John Shirley
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it. -- Damien Hirst
I'm reverent from a distance. -- Janet Morris
Everything seems simpler from a distance. -- Gail Tsukiyama
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful. -- Tacitus
I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance. -- Charles Bukowski
He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance. -- Amy Dickinson
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. -- Howard G. Hendricks
You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. -- Tamora Pierce
What looks large from a distance, close up ainâ??t never that big. -- Bob Dylan
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance. -- Richard Whately
There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance. -- Joel Osteen
Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance. -- Celine Dion
I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance. -- Sanhita Baruah
I am small.So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective. -- C. Kennedy
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. -- Jim Bishop
I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance. -- Demetri Martin
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle. -- Frances Hardinge
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. -- Tim Berners-Lee
We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance. -- Taite Adams
You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close? -- Thomas Hardy
I'm actually not star-struck. I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance. -- Bethany Hamilton
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars. -- Stephan Pastis
Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death. -- Paulo Coelho
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People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes. -- Richard J. Needham
A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who. -- Jay-Z
You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that. -- Steven Morrissey
But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less. -- Maya Angelou
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. -- Steven Saylor
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. -- Steven Saylor
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. -- Arthur Koestler
Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike. -- Plato
Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true. -- Rudolf Hess
It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president. -- Claire McCaskill
It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them. -- Gil Fronsdal
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. -- Terry Pratchett
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed. -- Franz Grillparzer
Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom. -- Simone Troisi
We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. -- George MacDonald Fraser
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace. -- Frans de Waal
What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different -- Peyton J Glenn
The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation. -- Sarah Brightman
The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided. -- Confucius
If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
He who sits/stands in front of the fire sees more than the flames.. He feels the heat! Too often from a distance others observe the flames only as a source of light. -- Lennox D. Lampkin
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. -- Sydney Schanberg
sad things are beautiful only from a distancetherefore you just want to get away from themfrom a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful -- Tao Lin
Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge. -- Laura Pritchett
Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED. -- Shane Koyczan
Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
It's more impressive from a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it. -- John Green
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks. -- Andre Agassi
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof. -- Shannon L. Alder
I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance. -- Matthew Shultz
I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar. -- Lydia Davis
I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese. -- Jason Isaacs
When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know? -- Charlie Kaufman
Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love. -- Scott Westerfeld
Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M. -- George Will
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. -- Andrea Hirata
Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. I wonder what he's thinking, Howard will say.) -- Chandler Burr
It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person. -- John Green
It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person. -- John Green
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance. -- Robert Gottlieb
We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are. -- Simon Winchester
I like "Julie Gold's song "From a Distance". Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer's eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for everyone. We are artists who play the most beautiful instruments in the world - life. -- Ilchi Lee
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -- Aesop
I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. -- Vaclav Havel
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. -- Karl Kraus
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak. -- Lisa Randall
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. -- Carl Hiaasen
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance. -- Lars von Trier
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. -- Malcolm de Chazal
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
In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it. -- Phil Klay
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance! -- Dreama Walker
If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing. If that which is intended to entertain, for example, alienates us from the Holy Spirit, then certainly that type of entertainment is not for us. -- David A. Bednar
GOD is watching us, from a Distance... -- Bette Midler
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. -- James Joyce
God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity. -- Alfred Jarry
learning must travel the distance from head to heart. -- Gloria Steinem
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. -- Constance Baker Motley
Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people -- Boonaa Mohammed
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. -- Jean de La Fontaine
The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door -- Erki Nool
I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future. -- Sylvia Day
I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power. -- Jorge Ramos
The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time. -- Simon Sinek
One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. -- Whitney M. Young
I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. -- Vaclav Havel
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. -- Sharon Olds
We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory. -- Jeffrey Hunter
Distance can separate you and me, but can never separate you from me. -- Kevin Keenoo
I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world. -- Andreas Gursky
The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch. -- Anthony Liccione
Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things. -- Zig Ziglar
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. -- Edwin Way Teale
Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance. -- George Will
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. -- Philip Caputo
Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office. -- Nelson DeMille
I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance. -- Jason Rezaian
You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world -- Suki Kim
Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies. -- Dillon Burroughs
The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts. -- Agnes Baker Pilgrim
Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live. -- Mark Lawrence

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