#distant

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#any #anybody #buy #children #church

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not excuse anything, at least explained a lot of Man's stubborn ruthlessness. Mankind had not started the mess that was life, after all. And on the whole, it had been an interesting species to be a part of, the girls especially, as long as you remembered to watch your back. ↗

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

#frailty #gabriel-d-allier #girls #life #mankind

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#anarchy #away #break #break up #cannot

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do? ↗

— Chanakya

#control #death #distant #healthy #long

Death is a distant rumor to the young. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#distant #rumor #young

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#distant #feel #hard #huge #individually

To die is landing on some distant shore. ↗

— John Dryden

#distant #landing #shore #some

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off. ↗

— John Thorn

#distant #far #future #instant #into

I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone. ↗

— William P. Young

#christianity #damages #disciplines #distant #divides