Distant Quotes

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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe… — Gaston Bachelard
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. — Gaston Bachelard
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural… — Paul Hawken
Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them… — Daniel Keyes
Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant… — Donald J. Newman
Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have… — Abraham Lincoln
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels,… — Henry David Thoreau
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge… — George Eliot
With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space… — Bernie Krause
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just… — Rolf Jacobsen
One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold… — Wallace Stevens
When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you. — John Fox
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool… — Michael Shermer
It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each… — Bernard Lazare
The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain… — Heber C. Kimball
The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but… — David Eagleman
Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related. — Monique Truong
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making… — John Yoo
We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant… — Al-Kindi
One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order....Most… — Colin Robinson

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