Distant Quotes

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The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing… — Ernest Shackleton
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have… — Lewis Thomas
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected… — Paul Valery
In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father,… — Rufus Wainwright
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.' — N. T. Wright
The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered… — Henry B. Eyring
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work… — Hanna Rosin
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. — Georges Bataille
he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is… — John Burroughs
...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but… — Thomas Wolfe
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of… — Dylan Thomas
Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano BuendÃa would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for… — Maya Angelou
...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a… — Bruno Schulz
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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