#distant

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#ancient #another #belongs #civilised #class

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

— Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are. ↗

— Josh Groban

#distance #distant #loss #smile #loss

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

— Saul Bellow

#goal #must #reach #small #steps

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#continue #distant #flight #hasten #longer

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#distant #misery #our #relation #sympathy

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

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#countries #distant #hand #invention #like

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#contact #distant #guess #i #life

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

#done #may #near #objective #satisfied