Afar Quotes

138 quotes by 126 authors

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to… — David Byrne
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us… — Willa Cather
All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water… — Shailene Woodley
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of… — Francis of Assisi
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh… — William Wordsworth
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is… — Jeff Miller
Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and… — John of Damascus
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. — Chuck Baldwin
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind.… — Edgar Guest
There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not… — Susan Meiselas
From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who… — Jose Mujica
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? — George Eliot
When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you… — Josh Hartnett
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail… — James Joyce
We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star. — John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted. — Confucius
Itâ€™s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. Itâ€™s like looking at the future. — Carol Birch

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