Distant Quotes

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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world… — Charles Darwin
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. Weâ€™re… — Haruki Murakami
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall… — Stephen Dobyns
The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles. — Paulo Coelho
A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours. — Kate Morton
Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real.… — Melissa de la Cruz
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where… — Leo Tolstoy
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark,… — Yukio Mishima
I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to… — Susan Beth Pfeffer
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard. — Vera Nazarian
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There,… — Khaled Hosseini
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what… — Charles Darwin
He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in… — Douglas Adams
My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much… — Jay-Z
They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities. — Nicholas Sparks
They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come… — James Frey
I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward… — Diane Ackerman
Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy… — Carl Sagan
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. — P.G. Wodehouse
A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was… — Lisa Kleypas

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