Distant Quotes

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms… — Michelle Bachelet
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that… — Ezra Taft Benson
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them… — Hugo Black
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. — Jack Black
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and… — Hal Borland
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man… — Jean de la Bruyere
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can… — Chanakya
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past… — William Ellery Channing
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. — Emile M. Cioran
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened,… — Thomas Carlyle
So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end — William Shakespeare
A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. — Robert Collier
If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to… — Martin Rees
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape,… — Adoniram Judson
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with… — George Santayana
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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