Distant Quotes

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I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world — Pierre de Fermat
The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant… — Stuart Varney
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar â€“ the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder. — Yasunari Kawabata
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke. — Yasunari Kawabata
Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in… — Junichiro Tanizaki
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide… — Samuel Johnson
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed… — Bronislaw Malinowski
A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects… — Olivier Messiaen
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to… — William Bartram
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be… — Abraham Lincoln
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite… — Samuel Johnson
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front. — Ulysses S. Grant
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones… — Fannie Farmer
I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and… — Michelangelo Antonioni
The poetic image [â€¦] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with… — Gaston Bachelard
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. — Bertrand Russell
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us;… — Phil Cousineau
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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