A Quote by Tacitus

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

Tacitus

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Beautiful Distance Everything Viewed

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

Tao Lin

Distance makes everything beautiful.

Michael Scott

I am best viewed from a distance.

Jenny Eclair

I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

Jenny Eclair

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

Plato

Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly.

Robert M. Gates

The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

Lydia M. Child

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

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Leon Krier

I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Alice Herz-Sommer

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun

Lewis Thomas

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

Ricky Schroder

When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

Tom Lehrer

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

Dan Simmons

In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.

Alice Herz-Sommer

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.