Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.
Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.
So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty-he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist.
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.
The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.
I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.
The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.
In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.
Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.
The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the stars' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings. . . for what is more beautiful than heaven?
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!
Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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.
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
