Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

Remote and ineffectual don. — Hilaire Belloc
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote… — Walter Bagehot
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask… — Bill Watterson
Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from… — Blaise Pascal
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the… — Thomas Jefferson
Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or… — Ambrose Bierce
I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency… — Richard M. Weaver
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations… — Richard Dawkins
Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the… — Phil Cousineau
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians,… — J I Packer
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel. — Dan Buettner
Even the idea of a fart makes me laugh. Saying the word 'fart' makes me laugh. I have iFart on my phone. I have remote… — George Clooney
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led… — Rene Descartes
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that… — Thomas Merton

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