Distant Quotes

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O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back… — William Allingham
Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other… — Pierre Loti
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. — Paul Goldberger
Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't… — Mercedes Lackey
Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail… — Alan Cranston
In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a… — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our… — Albert Einstein
....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant… — Nathaniel Branden
You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true. — Pablo Neruda
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the… — Matt Taibbi
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around… — Fernando Pessoa
I am so close, I may look distant. — Rumi
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. — Wendell Willkie
Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant… — Richard J. Foster
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are… — Adam Gopnik
Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. — Don Williams
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every manâ€™s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every manâ€™s… — Richard E. Byrd

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