Distant Quotes

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Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins. — Rachel Caine
The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and… — Terry Pratchett
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick… — Margaret Fuller
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows -… — Khalil Gibran
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more… — Marcel Proust
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons… — Pablo Neruda
There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage… — Nicholas Sparks
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time… — Chief Seattle
Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it… — Cecil Castellucci
All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself… — Rick Riordan
Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the… — Daniel J. Siegel
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of… — Don DeLillo
Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed… — Ann Aguirre
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding… — Lauren Kate
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty… — Douglas Adams
Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both… — Edgar Allan Poe

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