Distant Quotes

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The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in… — Samuel Johnson
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… — Thomas Carlyle
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath… — Robert Burns
In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere… — Leonardo da Vinci
I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if… — Leonardo da Vinci
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. — William Cowper
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And… — Alexander Pope
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. — Paul Cezanne
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those… — Eugene Delacroix
What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now.… — Richard Rohr
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy… — Gary Larson
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image. — Pierre Reverdy
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground...… — Mu Xin
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in… — Lyndon B. Johnson
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on… — Rachel Carson
Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes. — Jeremiah
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but… — Theodore Roosevelt

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