Distant Quotes

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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
View quotes by W H Auden

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
View quotes by Saul Bellow

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
View quotes by Edward Gibbon

As distant prospects please us, but when near
We find but desert rocks and fleeting air
View quotes by Sir Samuel Garth

We're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.
View quotes by Thomas Yalden

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan

It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
View quotes by Igor Stravinsky

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
View quotes by John Gardner

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
View quotes by Jean Paul Richter

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, General Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice
View quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. [if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!]
View quotes by Fannie Farmer

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
View quotes by Brian Tracy

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
View quotes by Martin Luther King Jr

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
View quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

The universe contains vastly more order than life on Earth could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. [Entropy in the universe]
View quotes by Paul Davies

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
View quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II



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