Quotes About Remote

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world

Doxan Iconography?" "A Praxic Age moving picture serial. An adventure drama about a military spaceship sent to a remote part of the galaxy to prevent hostile aliens from establishing hegemony, and marooned when their hyperdrive is damaged in an ambush. The captain of the ship was passionate, a hothead. His second-in-command was Dox, a theorician, brilliant, but unemotional and cold.

cold as a well-digger's ass in Maine.

There was no police station, no telephone service, no one to hear you scream.

The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever: Someday you and I will be the only two left.

I'm changing the channel," Simon announced, seizing the remote. "I'm tired of this anime. I cant tell what the plot is and no one ever has sex." "Of course they dont," Clary said, taking another chip. "Anime is wholesome family entertainment." "If you're in the mood for less wholesome entertainment we could try the porn channels," Simon observed. "Would you rather watch The Witches of Breastwick or As I Lay Dianne ?" "Give me that!" Clary grabbed for the remote... -Simon & Clary, pg.16 & 17-

So here we are once more in the wilds, and once more we've come upon some out of the way corner. But what a wilderness, and what an out of the way corner!

And there was another melancholy - different yet somehow similar - which came to Gersen as he watched the debonair folk about him. They were all graceful and easy, untouched by the toil and pain and terror that existed on remote worlds. Gersen envied them their detachment, their social skills. Still, would he change places with any of them? Hardly.

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

Our most historically underserved communities have been hit the hardest by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Many in these communities have not had the option of not going to work or working remotely, increasing their risk of exposure to coronavirus.

The Australian Outback can be quite unforgiving.

With everybody being remote and everyone just getting one square, we have contributions and participation on a much more even playing field.

Flying to Fair Isle from Lerwick is an experience I'll never forget.

New Mexico was such a strange place; it was like filming on Mars.

My mother was an inventor of first order and would, I believe, have achieved great things had she not been so remote from modern life and its multifold opportunities.

I didn't know we received CNN this deep in the Andes.

And the widow bird, startled, flew away, describing wider and wider circles until it became (what she called her soul) remote as a crow which has been startled up into the air by a stone thrown at it.

I have journeyed back in thought --with thought hopelessly tapering off as I went-- to remote regions where I groped for some secret outlet only to discover that the prison of time is spherical and without exits. Short of suicide I have tried everything.

I leaf again and again through these miserable memories, and keep asking myself, was it then, in the glitter of that remote summer, that the rift in my life began; or was my excessive desire for that child only the first evidence of an inherent singularity?

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa

Magellan seemed a remote, imperious figure, authoritarian and arbitrary, a man whose every word was law