#distant

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#beloved #bishop #christ #distant #english

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

#dying #love #love is #moan #triumphant

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. ↗

— Robert Plant

#darkness #distant #feel #front #great

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class. ↗

— Mark Poster

#distant #easy #experience #film #part

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ↗

— Hal Borland

#again #also #clearly #constellations #distant

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#distant #goal #means #merely #peace

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#advanced #attained #concept #created #democracy

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

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#distant #hear #other #ours #people

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

#beginning #creation #distant #event #expanding