Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. — James Norman Hall
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as… — Emmanuel Mounier
For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are… — John Calvin
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. — Guy Debord
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which… — Richard Rorty
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the… — Dogen
The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world — William Bradford
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a… — Philip Alston
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a… — Elwyn Brooks White
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more. — David Attenborough
How funny is it that so many professors labeled Tea Partiers as terrorists, while kissing the asses of real, bona fide terrorists? It's not funny,… — Greg Gutfeld
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. — Murray Bookchin
I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on… — Clive Anderson
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas… — Rick Renzi
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation… — Humphry Davy
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as… — Eric Hobsbawm
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but… — Francis Galton
Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we… — Richard Wiseman
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline… — C W Ceram

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