“ The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.7K
“ No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. ”
- Richard Perle- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Bluefield, a small city in a comparatively remote geographical location in the Appalachians, was not a community of scholars or of high technology. ”
- John Nash- Copy
- 3K
“ Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control. ”
- Diana Jordan- Copy
- 854
“ I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them. ”
- Peta Wilson- Copy
- 525
“ While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions. ”
- Eva Hoffman- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
- 545
“ Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control. ”
- M. Charles Wheeler- Copy
- 2.1K
“ True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. ”
- Philip Massinger- Copy
- 3K
“ It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ”
- Channing Pollock- Copy
- 1.8K
“ As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. ”
- Clarence Day- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. ”
- Martha Beck- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. ”
- William Trogdon- Copy
- 714
“ Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
- 4K
“ Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 3K
“ In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. ”
- Serge Daney- Copy
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