Distant Quotes

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This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of… — Michael Jackson
To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so great a quantity… — Marco Polo
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly… — Freya Stark
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do… — Dan Millman
There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors. — R. Kent Hughes
Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music. — Mac Miller
Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way. — Henry Van Dyke
Living Holy Week following Jesus means learning how to come out of ourselves to reach out to others, to go to the outskirts of existence,… — Pope Francis
Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core. — T. Thorn Coyle
No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still… — Robert Breault
One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now,… — Aleksandar Hemon
Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone… — Robert Montgomery
Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. — Alfred Thayer Mahan
Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very… — Maurice de Saxe
We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions.… — Dick Morris
The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us… — Allen Tucker
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning.… — Julian Huxley
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a… — Guy de Maupassant

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