Quotes About Distant

I guess it's the Russian side of me that takes me a long time to get close to people.

After all, television is confined to a glass box. No matter how gruesome the scenes on the screen may be, no blood will spill on the carpet. No matter how close television seems to be bring the day's events, they always remain distant enough to be viewed with dispassion. The global village can be visited and abandoned at will.

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another. Consistency is not required, but engagement with the problem is.

Everything was incredibly far away from me.

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless —it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

Bath-sheba was not only the mother of Solomon, but also the distant ancestress of Christ. For us, therefore, these Hittites of Judæa have a very special and peculiar interest.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

ghost of a distant author, with the disturbing presence of the foreign text, and with the phantom of the reader.

have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and try to cherish the questions themselves... Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them... Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, one distant day live right into the answer.

Sanki baz? sessiz gecelerde uzaklarda çalan davullar?n çarp?nt?s?, yükselen ve alçalan, hem engin hem de belli belirsiz titreÅŸim duyulabiliyordu; garip, insana hitap eden, davetkar ve vahÅŸi bir sesti bu, ama sanki Hristiyan bir ülkedeki çan sesleri kadar derine iÅŸleyen bir anlama sahipti.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Da ist auch noch ein anderer Geruch in der Luft, der Geruch von Feuern, die in der Ferne brennen, mit einem Hauch Zimt darin - so riecht das Abenteuer!

The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.

Le rythme lent et appliqué me faisait venir au cœur une lointaine berceuse créole.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'

What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.

Against the distant roar of the maelstrom I heard it. The hurrying strop of rotor blades on the fabric of the night.

She wore her age the way Diane Keaton did—as if she came from a distant planet where a beautiful older woman was as much prized as a beautiful older table.

As she let the mirage of a distant ruined town lull her into a meditative state, she could detect both of them in her mind somehow, and they felt…similar. Both obsessive; both so committed to their mission that anything was permissible in completing it.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.