Top 774 Remote Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.
My favourite climb is St Kilda, west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It's incredibly remote, with the highest sea cliffs in Britain.
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station.
Broadcasting something live from a remote site has always been the sole domain of large media corporations with access to satellite trucks.
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with - he doesn't deal with members of Congress.
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
So with 'Ascent,' one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it to be engaged with the human side and not just to be about the cold metal of planes and spacecraft.
You moan a lot and jingle your change
But let's face it, there's no escape
You can flick the remote as much as you like
But she's on the TV and on every tape
Lunch on the road is usually the same as breakfast and tea in remote places - packet meals. I'm veggie and generally get vegetable curry or rigatoni.
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
Movie stars are now less remote, less fantasized.
There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.
Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.
Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
I don't need to live in L.A. I can live anywhere and be remote. Everything is on tape.
But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful - timeless, perfect, remote.
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.
I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do.
I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.
My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
I have the gift of the gab, can talk and perform, but so can others. I can only attribute it to the fact that somebody up there likes me: it's remote-controlled by God.
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.
Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.
I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy!
I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching.
Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.
I'm most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
In Paris, the people go in the Metro, they move, they go to their offices, 8 a.m. in the morning - it's like remote control.
