Near And Far Quotes

• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

  Les Brown

  Friendship, Hands, Cute Friend

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• For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

  Simone Weil

  Friendship, Two, Separation

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.42, Routledge

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• Say you'll love, love me forever
  Never stop, not for whatever
  Near and far and always and
  Everywhere and everything.
  I love you, always forever
  Near and far, close and together
  Everywhere, I will be with you
  Everything, I will do for you
  I love you, always forever
  Near and far, close and together
  Everywhere, I will be with you
  Everything, I will do for you.

  Donna Lewis

  Life, Love You, Forever

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• Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Compassion, Dedication

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.425, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• I love you, always forever
  Near and far, close and together
  Everywhere, I will be with you
  Everything, I will do for you.

  Donna Lewis

  Life, Love You, Forever

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• We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.

  Betty Williams

  Peace, Memories, Tragedy

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.

  Alice Riley

  Mom, Dream, Daughter

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• You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

  Julio Cortazar

  Mean, Thinking, Museums

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• When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black as crow? where to go? where to go? near and far. Here they are. see a man without a face? move like ghosts from place to place. whats their plan? whats their plan? Chandrian. Chandrian

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Running, Moving, Eye

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• I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.

  India.Arie

  Power, Opportunity, People

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• I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Strong, Spring, Light

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Taught Us, Kuwait, Victory

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• Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Writing, Sea, Peaceful

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• When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Ideas, Civilization, Patterns

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.159, University of Chicago Press

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• A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

  Jon Meacham

  Wall, People, May

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