Distant Quotes

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He seems so.. English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul.. — Cate Tiernan
It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant — Suzanne Collins
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream. — Alice Hoffman
And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant — J M Coetzee
He began it,â€ Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Willâ€™s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet… — Cassandra Clare
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the… — Henry David Thoreau
A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a… — Jamie Ford
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of… — Walt Whitman
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's… — Umberto Eco
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the… — Richard Francis Burton
If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner… — Parker J. Palmer
And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off… — Isaac Marion
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion. — Carl Sagan
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. — Leo Tolstoy
Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an… — Jack Kornfield
The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning. — Vladimir Nabokov
When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever… — Dan Wells
And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me...everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the… — Knut Hamsun
our acquaintancesâ€”not our friendsâ€”are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections… — Malcolm Gladwell
A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their… — Ilona Andrews

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