Delusive hope still points to distant good.

So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end

— William Shakespeare

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

— John Dryden

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying…

— Mark McKinnon

To act is to act out of time. to act is to persuade time. to persuade is to act out of time. time is…

— Anonymous

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling…

— Steven Pinker

Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.

— Amor Towles

“Tell him this one thing. Distant rivers always reach the sea. Being far is just like being near. Would I think of him if…

— Annamayya

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are…

— Sri Chinmoy

It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed…

— Kara Swisher

We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving…

— Adam Riess

“Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past,…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in…

— Walter Dean Myers

“[Y]ou have no happiness in your heart, no power, no will that does not live in us as a presentiment, a reflection, a distant…

— Hermann Hesse

The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.

— Yohji Yamamoto

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

— Anthony Liccione