Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.… — Alan Bennett
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or… — Sonia Sotomayor
He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful - timeless, perfect, remote. — Rick Riordan
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her… — John Steinbeck
She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say," So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next… — Ally Carter
I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me." "Just making sure." "Besides, if… — Ilona Andrews
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too… — Henry Wood
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. — Edgar Degas
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will… — Bertrand Russell
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused. — Samuel Johnson
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman
So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem… — John F. Kennedy
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote,… — Herman Melville
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were… — Hanna Rosin
I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter… — Nikola Tesla
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent. — Joan Didion
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to… — Henry Rollins
I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote… — Rory Stewart
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely,… — Simon Schama

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