Distant Quotes

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Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth.… — Brian Cox
I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear… — Gail Carson Levine
I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and… — George R. R. Martin
I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of… — Carl Sagan
..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is… — Elizabeth Scott
Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful… — Jack Kerouac
And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the… — Susan Branch
It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time. — Daniel Handler
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.â€¨ Such moments are most desirable, â€¨for it means the soul has cast its moorings and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I thought to myself: if itâ€™s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I… — Sadegh Hedayat
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and… — David Gerrold
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory… — Margaret Thatcher
You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect;… — Wallace D. Wattles
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we… — Rabindranath Tagore
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and… — Marcel Proust
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and… — Coretta Scott King
Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never… — Subramanya Bharathi
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every… — Brian Tracy

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