Distant Quotes

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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places… — Wendell Willkie
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers… — Jean Batten
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. — Saul Bellow
Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if… — Thor Heyerdahl
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib… — James M. Barrie
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and… — Neville Chamberlain
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure. — Ernest Lawrence
Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all… — Dave Barry
Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when… — Merrill Markoe
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds… — James Clerk Maxwell
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was… — Lance Armstrong
My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote.… — Paul Klee
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace
Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. — George Eliot
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not… — Albert Claude
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary… — Charles Darwin
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... — Alexander Pope

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