Quotes About Distant

They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions.

When an apparition came to an artist, it came almost invisibly, trailing a distant, unrecognisably vast sound, and he or she found it and traced where it nudged the surface, the facing surface, on which it would now stay visible even when it had withdrawn and gone back into the one.

In the long term, Mars must be a stepping-stone to more distant destinations, because two adjacent planets could be simultaneously affected by the universe's more violent events, such as a nearby supernova.

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

For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

Connectivity with inside members appears a distant reality and surprisingly, a big talk takes place about making it with neighbors a priority.

What is it about traveling by night that makes even a short journey strange and a little wonderful? Momentary lights appear and pass across the windowpane so fast they burst suddenly into view before becoming patterns of the past, stars that grow ever more distant as they follow their opposite course away from the car as it hurtles on its way through the darkness.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

Viewed from a distant star, our planet would appear to be an unhappy planet, full of unhappy repulsive people, dissatisfied with themselves, with the Earth, with Life itself and knowing no greater pleasure than causing pain, to themselves and to others.

LATER THAN YOU THINK Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1950. Obviously the Archeologist's study belonged to an era vastly distant from today. Familiar similarities here and there only sharpened the feeling of alienage.

My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.

She lived in a frame cottage on a hillside overlooking the distant campus. The front yard was choked with a dozen varieties of cactus, some of which speared as high as the roof. The house needed paint and it hung on the slope a little off balance, like its tenant.

Despite all that she did for me, Melanie had a distant smell. She smelled like a floral guest soap in a strange house I was visiting.

Then they fell from a joyous life in the moment into the anxious contemplation of the vanished past and the distant future.

I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

Benghazi happened a long time ago.

Dr. Eve came into the room like a roll of distant thunder, just enough to send a chill of warning down the spine, with the knowledge of a storm to come.

winter days, but distantly. Like very old ghosts.

It was a strange thing to be in a distant land, among things you'd never seen before, all because our people in Congress had squabbled among themselves and failed to get along and there were hotheads in the South who thought more of their Negroes and their pride than they did of their country

Restraint was a mountaintop on a faraway continent.

But the natural emotion of the situation one could not escape from, and on Thursday night I sate up in my dressing gown till nearly one, listening to the distant firing from the boulevards. Thursday was the only day in which there was fighting of any serious kind. There has been no resistance on the part of the real people