142 Distant Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nothing is more difficult than to recreate in all its complexity than a distant age, and not only to get it right but make it seem fresh and relevant. Michael Korda

Age Nothing Difficult Distant Complexity Relevant Seem More Only Recreate Make Fresh Than Get Right

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering. Michael Winter

War Relationship Distant Only Up Luckily Grown Grown-Up

A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story. Nancy Kress

Time Result Space Distant See True Over Reader Label Itself Going Story Reason Now Serve Consequence Alert

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth. Neville Chamberlain

Future Peace Fight People Destruction Political Ruin Distant Earth Possibility Security Would City Rather Principles Whose

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated. Nostradamus

Great People Sky Will Seen Fire Nation Distant Out All People Put Come Know Foreign Places Origin Defeated

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. Octavio Paz

Time Speed Our Distant Once Ancestors Neighbor Posterity Archaic Picasso He Him Without Permits Go Going Happen Happening Places Centuries Next-Door Neighbor Now Letting Letting Go Belong Here Two

We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide. Octavio Paz

Time World Pure Other Side Distant Those Indian Only Divide Look Cultural Mexicans Across Descent Even

Few, if any, corporations absorb the full cost of their operations. Corporations shove many of their costs onto the environment, the public sector, and distant third parties. Paul Craig Roberts

Few Distant Corporations Sector Cost Costs Onto Absorb Environment Parties Operations Any Public Full Shove Many Public Sector Third

My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory. Peter Roskam

Memory Wife Will Long Distant Kids Constituents Days After Serving

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country. Pierre Loti

Home Long Country Before Other Distant Way Sight Would Take Had Returning Pass Provinces Often Where Peaceful

We knew from theoretical models that mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies were more frequent in the past. Now we've found that these mergers are responsible for producing both the nearby obscured quasar population and their distant cousins. Priyamvada Natarajan

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset. Randy Bachman

You Sunset Age Gift Focus Nothing Distant Musical Out Direction Tends Toward Talent Until Knows Motion Still Years End After Realise Interfere Forward Rainbow Early Last Early Age

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay. Ric Ocasek

Time Me People Think Guess Distant Okay Tell Bother Aloof Look Forbidding Withdrawn Fairly Am Private Um Much

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges. Richard Matheson

If governments decide to return to the Moon - as seems to be the case - it must be to build villages, not bases, and to do it as rapidly as possible, as it needs to be an immediate challenge, not a distant dream. And if some want to go to Mars or mine asteroids, they need to be seen as part of a new frontier community. Rick Tumlinson

Needs Challenge Moon Seen Build Community Distant Mine Immediate Possible Rapidly Dream Must Mars Some Case Seems Part New Return Go Governments Frontier Want Decide To The Moon Villages Bases Need

Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination. Rory MacLean

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. S. J. Perelman

Love Love Is Distant Triumphant Moan Dying Twang Violin

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression. Sam Abell

Life Light Finished Single Distant Visual Photographs Horizon Rarely Often Interest Held Strand Moment Fully Expression Image Presents

The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards. Sandi Toksvig

Truth Time Great Truth Is World Money Adding Distant Purchase Some Cash Consumer Idea Like Clerk Make Anti Quietly Modern Prefer Double Really Act Payment Plastic Each Each Time Card Profile Cards

How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. Sayed Kashua

Life Politics Me Racism New Life Care Distant Minister Would About Faces Knew Prime New Name Like Names Know Because How Where Anything Place Land Meaning Even Hardly Start

Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards. Seth Shostak

Failure Seen Trouble Heroic Distant Would Triumph Arena Individual Take Never Like Likely Where Stories Place Century Landscapes Help Humankind Cards Necessity Set

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong. Simon Conway Morris

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them. Steven Pinker

Past Every Trees Distant About No-One Taken Like Massacre Know Falling Hear Forest Close Place Them Present

Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations. Ted Cruz

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