#distant

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#chair #distant #door #down #duty

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#answers #day #distant #even #into

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#advances #deliberately #distant #haste #himself

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

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. ↗

— Barbara W. Tuchman

#barbara-tuchman #catholic-church #christianity #religion #religion

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#goal #must #reach #small #steps

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

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#acts #brand #distant #hope #opiate

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cosmos #distant #ego #may #more