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We've found 31 quotes for 'distant' (0.147 seconds):


Movies:  Distant Thunder (1988) Distant Thunder, A (1978)


"In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!" »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales 
"If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand" »Confucius 
"If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand." »Confucius 
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." »John Burroughs 
"Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!" »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon." »David Assael 
"It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!" »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring." »S. J. Perelman 
"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter 
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience." »La Bruyere 
"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
"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." »Brian Tracy 
"As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odours waft from blooming trees, So, too, the grateful savour spreads To distant lands of virtuous deeds." »Sanskrit Proverb 
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." »William Ralph Inge 
"As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love." »Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down 
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
"Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don’t need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!" »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." »Johan Wolfgang von Goethe 
"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers." »Rainer Maria Rilke 
"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers." »Rainer Maria Rilke 
"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." »Johann von Goethe 
"Carbon atoms on a distant planet rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into amphibians and crawled onto dry land—and finally a cab appeared at the mouth of the alley." »Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel) 
"People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under." »Charles R. Swindoll 
"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." »Miyamoto Musashi 
"No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal 
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." »Helen Keller 
"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." »Martin Luther King, Jr. 
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli 
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