Distant Quotes

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Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs… — Maria Montessori
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class. — Mark Poster
Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of… — Plato
The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be -… — W. Clement Stone
If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved? — Boonaa Mohammed
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light,… — Sam Abell
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will… — Angela Merkel
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly… — Jonathan Swift
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle… — Arthur C. Clarke
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have… — Jeff Schweitzer
When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles… — Terence McKenna
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not… — Gordon B. Hinckley
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own… — Pat Conroy
In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that… — Viktor E. Frankl
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained… — Albert Claude
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the… — Robert Breault

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