Distances Between Us Cities Quotes & Sayings

Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist. — Al Gore

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things — James Howard Kunstler

In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten. — Muriel Barbery

Art is free," he said, "and is not to be diminished by any chains of craftsmanship. — Jan Swafford

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation. — Erica Jong

And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder. — Tom Robbins

Together, we're going to finish the job we started. — Barack Obama

Way has never opened in front of me ... but a lot of way has closed behind me, and that has had the same guiding effect. — Parker J. Palmer

We see much more of this loneliness now. It's paradoxical that that where people are the most closely crowded in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is greatest. Back where people are so spread out in Western Oregon and Idaho and Montana and the Dakotas you'd think the loneliness would have been greater, but we didn't see it so much. The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's the psychic distance, and in Montana and Idaho the physical distances are long but the psychic distances between people are small, and here, in primary America, it's reversed. — Robert M. Pirsig

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain. — John Amery

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing. — Lily Tomlin

It's the little details in life that make all the difference. — Emilie Barnes

A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being. — Ravi Zacharias

I'd felt drowned and extinguished by vastness - not just the predictable vastness of time, and space, but the impassable distances between people even when they were within arm's reach of each other, and with a swell of vertigo I thought of all the places I'd been and all the places I hadn't, a world lost and vast and unknowable, dingy maze of cities and alleyways, far-drifting ash and hostile immensities, connections missed, things lost and never found ... — Donna Tartt