#distant

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling. ↗

— George Murray

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

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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

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

— Mark Poster

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#distant #picnic #sound #thunder

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

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There are charms made only for distant admiration. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#charms #distant #made #only

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

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