Quotes About Distant

Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.

In a way, the very success which the Boss laid on Tiny was his revenge on Tiny, for every time the Boss put his meditative, sleepy, distant gaze on Tiny, Tiny would know, with a cold clutch at his fat heart, that if the Boss should crook a finger there wouldn't be anything but the whiff of smoke.

From afar he saw what Speaker was doing, and he called Hold it! That's not necessary. Speaker had drawn the modified digging tool. He said, Does it have to be necessary?

It was disquieting to Eddie, this jarring contrast between the bright, cheery atmosphere inside Palisades and the slowly darkening world outside it. As calliope music played and diapered babies crawled in derbies, bombs fell on the other side of the world, which no longer seemed so comfortably distant.

Existence is sometimes what a forward artillery observer sees of enemy lines through field glasses. A distant and troubling view brought suddenly into focus with a wealth of obscene detail.

The rest, with faces contorted from the strain of trying to listen, saw distant men gesturing wildly into the sound-killing miasma of whispers, coughs and creaking shoe leather.

The ideal of Liberty that has made the Republic the arbiter of Europe will also make it the arbiter of distant oceans, of faraway countries.

Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

I can hear your whisper and distant mutter. I can smell your damp on the breeze and in the sky I see the halo of your violence. Storm I know you are coming.

But Margot romanticized uprisings of people in distant lands. She didn't judge brown rapists and torturers by the same standards she would have applied to white men who drowned children for being the wrong religion. She believed, I think, like Suhrawardy, that 'bloodshed and disorder are not necessarily evil in themselves, if resorted to for a noble cause.

Ye Christian heralds, go proclaim Salvation through Emmanuel's name; To distant climes the tidings bear, And plant the Rose of Sharon there.

Like chickens drinking, the students lifted their eyes towards the distant ceiling.

the mokopa, which was long and black and very poisonous and which was well-known to hate humans because of some distant wrong in snake memory.

As always, so polite that he is at the beginning distant, and yet always determined. This is because he has uses for us all. Yukio is not only a dramatist but also a practicing stage director. For the drama of his life, he has cast us in our various roles, those demanded by the rigor of the script. Each of us has his or her purpose—or else we would not have seen him at all.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

What distant star had to explode to seed our world with inspiration?

his thoughts, I knew, were far away, in those distant ages where he moved at ease, where time passed in centuries and all the figures were defaced and the names of his companions were corrupt readings of words of quite other meaning.

Y en cambio, los gatos se comportan como si no les importases lo más mínimo. También hay personas así, ¿sabes?, ariscas, que no se dejan querer. Idgie era así

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.