Quotes About Distant Places

#1. Other lives wind themselves into your own and then leave for distant places or wink out like extinguished lamps, and then all the evidence you have that there was ever any time is a few scribbled words and a few blurred pictures. Then those burn in fire or blow away in wind and you have nothing.

Dexter Palmer

#2. Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Vera Nazarian

#3. There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

George R R Martin

#4. America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in
often distant places.

Jeb Bush

#5. I am sad and have a passion for unknown, distant places. I want to see the world. And I would love it, if I just had the chance to get away for a little while. But sadly, things aren't that easy; desire won't change a thing.

Abraham M. Alghanem

#6. A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Nostradamus

#7. Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself.

Somya Kedia

#8. The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

Wendell Willkie

#9. Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. The rare beauty of distant places made home seem as if we had been thrown out of paradise and sent to purgatory or worse.

Scott Haas

#11. The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

Aeschylus

#12. These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;

Robert Macfarlane

#13. To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.

Stephen Spender

#14. Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart.

Ryokan

#15. 'Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.

Gregory Benford

#16. People arrived in town all the time. It wasn't that distant from other places, and it was along a major thoroughfare. There was a Taco Bell where people could pee. There was a gas station where people could pee. There were all sorts of things.

Joseph Fink

#17. My books nourish my soul. When I open a cover and begin to read, I go to new places, to worlds I never knew existed. I time travel into the past and up into the distant future

Ann Hite

#18. Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

Umberto Eco

#19. The only way the meek will ever inherit the earth is when they get ground into it by the heel of someone else's boot.

Dan Groat

#20. I've had friends who've lied to me, I've had friends who've done things behind my back, I've had people steal from me - and it doesn't stop me from trusting.

Kate Hudson

#21. I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

V.S. Naipaul

#22. Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

Octavio Paz

#23. Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God, and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men. All preachers of the gospel will do well to recollect this saying daily.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#24. A man's measure is his will.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#25. Sometimes in life we must slowly distant ourselves from people and places we feel unconformable. Don't feel bad feel freedom.

Ron Baratono

#26. Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Whoever keeps himself distant from these places remains distant from Jesus.

Richard Wurmbrand

#27. A nomad I will remain for life,
in love with distant and uncharted places.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#28. I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

Nancy McKeon

#29. Don't be afraid, you can do it.

Steve Jobs

#30. Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

Terry Brooks

#31. I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Rickie Lee Jones

#32. Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.

Edward M. Lerner

#33. In shamanism it is not the jaguar or the crow that has meaning, it is what follows from whatever you view as an energetic transfer.

Lujan Matus

#34. Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

Jane Smiley

#35. The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.

Ross Lovegrove

#36. In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough