Distant Quotes

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To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it. — Pascal Mercier
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. — John Masefield
He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space… — Nicholas Sparks
Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like… — Nicole Krauss
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I… — Banana Yoshimoto
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his… — Virginia Woolf
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling… — Carl Sagan
Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks… — Dean Koontz
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw… — Charles Dickens
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far… — Virginia Woolf
LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely… — Paulo Coelho
If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms… — Nicole Krauss
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run… — Alvin Toffler
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an… — Joseph Conrad
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso… — Jodi Picoult
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance. — Ian Mcewan
Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.… — Daniel Dennett
I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure I can bring… — P. C. Cast
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get… — Donald Miller

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