Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it. — Charles Elachi
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out… — Francis Harold Cook
This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests… — Vaclav Klaus
No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when national… — Leon Pinsker
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. — Stefan Zweig
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. — Sargent Shriver
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. — George Leigh Mallory
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates -… — Timothy Garton Ash
I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some… — Cecelia Ahern
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or GyÃ¶rgy], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far from each other… — Gyorgy Lukacs
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence… — Chris Hadfield
I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s the matter with me, why Iâ€™m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like… — David Shields
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.… — Charles Darwin
The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or… — Irving Fisher
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. — Dennis Potter
Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base. — William Arthur Ward
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked… — Robert Graves

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