Quotes of Distant - somelinesforyou

“ Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. ”

- Russell H. Conwell

“ How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. ”

- Jean Ingelow

“ Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions. ”

- Voltaire

“ Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. ”

- Confucius

“ Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ 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

“ The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ”

- John Burroughs

“ If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. ”

- Confucius

“ If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. ”

- Confucius

“ 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

“ Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. ”

- David Assael

“ The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ This memory brightens o'er the past; as when the sun, concealed; behind some cloud that near us hangs; shines on a distant field. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ All successful people 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 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. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Death is a distant rumor to the young. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present. ”

- Unknown

“ For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. ”

- John Dryden

“ God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. ”

- Horace

“ It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best. ”

- C. H. Parkhurst

“ Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin — it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ”

- Sydney Joseph Perelman

“ Naturally, love is the most distant possibility. ”

- Georges Bataille

“ Nothing's far when one wants to get there. ”

- Queen Marie of Rumania
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