Remoteness Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

• The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason… — Alexander Hamilton
• The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace,… — Conrad Aiken
• The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains… — Fred Bear
• The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside… — Martin Lewis Perl
• With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of… — Nikola Tesla
• The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt
• Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness. — Mark Twain
• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
• Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. — Alice Meynell
• After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe… — Lawrence Millman
• Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the whole world, so… — Helen Hunt Jackson
• I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething… — H P Lovecraft
• Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my… — Vladimir Nabokov
• Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of… — Alice Meynell
• We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The joys of heaven are like the stars, which by reason of our remoteness appear extremely little. — Robert Boyle

Who Wrote These Remoteness Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Remoteness Quotes as follows:

• 2 Remoteness Quotes by Alice Meynell
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Conrad Aiken
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Fred Bear
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Martin Lewis Perl
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Nikola Tesla
• 1 Remoteness Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Remoteness Quote by George Eliot
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Lawrence Millman
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Helen Hunt Jackson
• 1 Remoteness Quote by H P Lovecraft
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Robert Boyle
• 1 Remoteness Quote by Alexander Hamilton