Distant Quotes

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

Peace, Goal, Means

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

Work, Women, Men

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

Great, Travel, Forward

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy

War, Today, Same

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Silence, Night

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

Live, Knowing, Questions

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Chanakya

Death, Long, Control

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

Religion, Human, Doubt

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

Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Andy Rooney

Death, Young, Rumor

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin

Future, Almost, Period

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving

Heart, Friends, Sun

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.
Pope John Paul II

Time, History, Today

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs

Great, Difficult, Deceptive

There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson

Made, Admiration, Charms

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

Government, Respect, Hard

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
Lope de Vega

Today, Tomorrow, Dreaming

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.
Marshall McLuhan

Art, Happen, Old

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
Hal Borland

Again, Once, Seen

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Night, Nor

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Eyes, Gentleman, Present

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

Hope, While, Action

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

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

Death, Sound, Thunder

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emile M. Cioran

Enemy, Gate, Preferable

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Human, Happen, Creativity

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
Robert Plant

Great, After, Year

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.
Jean de la Bruyere

Patience, Long, Road

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan

Art, Happen, Old

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
Isabelle Eberhardt

Life, Love, Places

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