Distant Quotes

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The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He… — John Jakes
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots. — Walter Salles
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size.… — Michael Behe
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done. — Abbott L. Lowell
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit… — George Murray
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and… — John Clayton
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump… — Bruce Jackson
The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work… — Lawrence Hargrave
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant… — Gabriel Lippmann
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far… — Henry James Sumner Maine
There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process. — Kurt Angle
Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton -… — Douglas Wilder
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant. — Anthony Horowitz
The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it… — Michael Mandelbaum
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking… — Walter Dean Myers
It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, We base all our… — Ronald Reagan
Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes… — Plato
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
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
In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along — Melissa Etheridge

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