Quotes of: Distant Keyword

A distant fire does not burn.

Swahili

They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...

The Distant Hours

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Irish

A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.

Nigerian

Distant hills look beautiful; near ones are ugly.

Goan

También en su mundo distante, más distante que la propia luna, la música era capaz de penetrar y hacer milagros.

Paulo Coelho

it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

The Distant Hours

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

John Masefield

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing

The Distant Shore

Dignity is a bridge. It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridge without ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.

Zapatistas

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

The Songs Of Distant Earth

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.

A Distant Melody

My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

The Distant Hours

One female who knows what to do is better than a thousand males who don't. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you thin...

The Distant Hours

I have no time in the world but the time in which I am and that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Chinese