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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.
Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.
The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.
For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.
Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.
One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.
They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.
straightway like a bell
Came low and clear
The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas
When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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.
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.
Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.
I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
If you ever feel distant, never mistake who has drifted away. Prayer will close this gap.
Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
Love means to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.
Present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.
My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.
In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
Life is beautiful. He who reads that
As in the window of some distant, speeding train
Knows what he wants, and what will befall.
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air
I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.
