#distant

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#advanced #attained #concept #created #democracy

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#distant #during #each #exposure #formation

I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I don’t mean that in a sad and lonely way; I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m good with words, but not spoken kind; I’ve often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper. And I suppose, in a sense, that’s what I do, for I’ve hundreds of the other sort, the friends contained within bindings, pages after glorious pages of ink, stories that unfold the same way every time but never lose their joy, that take me by the hand and lead me through doorways into worlds of great terror and rapturous delight. Exciting, worthy, reliable companions - full of wise counsel, some of them - but sadly ill-equipped to offer the use of a spare bedroom for a month or two. ↗

— Kate Morton

#distant-hours #kate-morton #terrorism

Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not excuse anything, at least explained a lot of Man's stubborn ruthlessness. Mankind had not started the mess that was life, after all. And on the whole, it had been an interesting species to be a part of, the girls especially, as long as you remembered to watch your back. ↗

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

#frailty #gabriel-d-allier #girls #life #mankind

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#distant-room #kvothe #music #music

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#distant #hear #other #ours #people

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#alone #been #beneficial #concentrated #country

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear. ↗

— Richard H. Baker

#brief #composer #distant #during #fall