Quotes:Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the
distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
View quotes by Jean Paul RichterFill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of
distance run
View quotes by Rudyard KiplingThere are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a
distance to reach either.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonScarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the
distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
View quotes by Edmond Halley'So far as I know, no one has yet pointed out that the
distance travelled in equal intervals of time, by a body falling from rest, stand to one another in the same ratio as the odd number beginning with 1'.
View quotes by Galileo GalileiMorality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the
distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt's close to where I live so I was curious to see it from a close
distance. [on the Lakeside darts venue]
View quotes by Arjen RobbenOur grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a
distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand
View quotes by Thomas CarlyleOur main business is not to see what lies dimly at a
distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand
View quotes by Thomas CarlyleThe situation [with British middle-
distance runners] would be less worrying if it were not being reflected at the next level down... Unfortunately someone seems to have pulled out the plug because the depth is now very worrying.
View quotes by Steve CramThe land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a
distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible
View quotes by Washington IrvingOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite
distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the
distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
View quotes by Rainer Maria RilkeWe talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking
distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
View quotes by Dwight MoodyIf you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of
distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
(Rewards and Fairies 1910, 'If-')
View quotes by Rudyard KiplingMars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same
distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
View quotes by Dan QuayleFar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a
distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
[The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy]
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