William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Distance sometimes let you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about… — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never… — John Green Copy Share Image
Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members:… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For a number of years, I struggled and put distance between God and me. But He was faithful and patient and provided… — Clint Dempsey Copy Share Image
[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image