Distant Quotes

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On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the… — Alexander Carmichael
For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or… — N. T. Wright
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at… — Margaret Thatcher
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you… — Gail Carson Levine
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure. — James A. Michener
I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again. — Iwane Matsui
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction… — Thomas Keating
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going… — E. O. Wilson
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. — Arthur Eddington
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past — Dmitri Volkogonov
Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the… — Lewis Gordon
We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march… — Steven Biko
But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of… — Alexandra Fuller
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you — Robert Plant
The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God. — Yohji Yamamoto
At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something… — Michael Ende
Itâ€™s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. — Frances Mayes
Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we donâ€™t empathize with distant strangers, their lives… — Paul Bloom
To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the… — Dan Eldon

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