Afar Quotes - Page 2

• I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mean, Men, Brain

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• Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

  George Eliot

  Love, Fall, Kissing

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.215, Open Road Media

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• Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar. To each one of you, I ask you to continue to support me by praying to God to let me be his gentle and firm pastor of his church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Heart, Support

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• Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

  James Russell Lowell

  Skirts, Praise, Graves

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.67

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• All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Smell, Bird

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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• The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Moon, Views, Space

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• Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
  For lovers love the western star.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Life, Stars

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.31

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• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Character, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.2

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• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
  Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
  Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
  The flying chariot through the field of air.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Air, Wings, Car

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.22

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• I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.

  Edward Rowland Sill

  Xmas, Home, Holiday

  Edward Rowland Sill (1972). “The Poetical Works of Edward Rowland Sill”

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• The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.

  Gautama Buddha

  Night, Arrows, Shining

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• A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Men, Doors, Long

  "Window Dictatorship and Window Rights". www.hundertwasser.at. 1990.

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• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Failure, Men

  'Popularity' (1855) st. 1

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• The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.

  John Bytheway

  Taught, Action, Lord

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• I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Phones, Community, Mail

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• In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

  Greta Van Susteren

  War, Hands, Damage

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Work, Shining

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• I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.

  Bobby Sager

  World, Helping, Monk

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• Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Knowing, Evil

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• To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

  Julian Barnes

  Psychics, Giving, Looks

  "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.

  Troye Sivan

  Stalking

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• And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Home, Humility

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• It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

  William McFee

  Romantic, Adventure, Vision

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• I like suits. I mean, I always feel good in a suit; I’m more of a suit guy than a shirt-and-jeans-type guy, probably. You know, like, I love Brad Goresky’s style. And sometimes he’ll wear a pair of, like, leopard pants, and I’m like, I couldn’t pull that off, but I appreciate it from afar.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Mean, Jeans, Appreciate

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson on His Amazing Oscar-Party Photo Bomb (and the Sloppiest Modern Family Dresser)". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

  James Fallows

  Two, Google, Steps

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