Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it… — Sholem Asch
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten.… — Annie Besant
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money -… — James Buchan
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of… — Noam Chomsky
It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it… — Marcel Proust
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than… — Alexander Hamilton
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex,… — Eva Hoffman
The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a… — Tom Weir
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to… — Jean de la Bruyere
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives. — Deepak Chopra
Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change… — John Legend
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all… — Dave Barry
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time… — Fred Hoyle
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole… — Zhuangzi

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