#afar

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. ↗

— Sam Walter Foss

#bucket #drop #fresher #just #seek

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. ↗

— William Davenant

#bred #broadest #fame #like #narrowest

Last year I built a Courage Machine, but I thought it might be noisy and was too afraid to turn it on. So I coated it with glue, covered it with cat hair, mounted it on my wall, and started claiming it was an exotic animal I killed on a Safari in Africa. I'd like to believe people believe me, on account of it being so strange that it has to be true. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#africa #cat-hair #courage #exotic-animal #fear

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#pirates #sail #sailing #sea #seafaring

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love #warmth #love

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. ↗

— Mary Antin

#could #culture #draw #education #had

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. ↗

— George Eliot

#afar #been #deeds #makes #our

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere

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

#actually #afar #astounded #brain #constantly

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#admire #afar #afford #alexander #chanel