Distant Quotes

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The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the… — James Russell Lowell
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer… — Andrew Carnegie
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals… — Hans Kung
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors,… — Henry David Thoreau
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves… — Mark McKinnon
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants… — Jeremy Grantham
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future. — Frans Lanting
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on. — Lisa Kristine
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or… — Robert Lanza
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove… — Janine di Giovanni
Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated. — Gabby Douglas
There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination,… — George R. R. Martin
The concept of even having fans is still kind of weird to me. I really just feel like a filmmaker that is only just finding… — Neill Blomkamp
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any… — Nikola Tesla
We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in… — Steven Pinker
Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal… — Suze Orman
Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees… — Sri Chinmoy
What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some people call confidence,… — Alan Greenspan
My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory. — Peter Roskam

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