Remote Quotes
429 quotes by 379 authors
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Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Only a fool took a remote from a god.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity…
— Mark Twain
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In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted…
— Isaac Newton
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How did you fastforward and turn it off? (Danger) I wanted it off and off it went. (Alexion) Wow, that’s amazing. I guess this makes…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Alright then, let's explain it this way. There are four basic kinds of Daimons or vampires; bloodsuckers, soulsuckers, energy/dreamsuckers, and slayers. (Talon) You guys are…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of…
— Cassandra Clare
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It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand…
— Conrad Aiken
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Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who…
— Hélder Câmara
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After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin…
— Richelle Mead
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They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.
— Alyson Noel
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December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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See, Sway, that’s what you get for flunking your pilot’s test six times…which I’m pretty sure is a record of some sort. If not for…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very…
— Albert Camus
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Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting…
— Alfred North Whitehead
Who Wrote These Remote Quotes
379 authors contributed a total of 429 Remote Quotes, led by these top contributors: