Distant Quotes

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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the… — Samuel Johnson
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of… — Terry Pratchett
When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to… — George Barna
Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a… — Mark Helprin
The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't. — John Green
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere… — Henry David Thoreau
Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your peers but adults… — Pope Benedict XVI
Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant. — Rebecca Solnit
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,… — Hal Porter
Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky.… — Hazel Hawke
Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much… — Peter Koestenbaum
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in… — John Dryden
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star. — Yehudi Menuhin
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison.… — Richard Wurmbrand
Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the… — Phil Cousineau
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe… — Ronald Reagan
To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system. — Richard Koch
Regardless of where you are tonight, God is with you. God is wooing you. God wants you to experience Him. Whatever you are going through… — Lysa TerKeurst
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks… — John Steinbeck

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