#distant

To die is landing on some distant shore. ↗

— John Dryden

#distant #landing #shore #some

I don't particularly like being pregnant. I like the baby at the end. Pregnancy is a very distant thing for me. I can't seem to believe there's really a baby there. It's such a miracle. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#being #being pregnant #believe #distant #end

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#distant #misery #our #relation #sympathy

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#countries #distant #hand #invention #like

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process. ↗

— Kurt Angle

#many #our #political #political process #process

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#comes #distant #language #motion #motion pictures

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cosmos #distant #ego #may #more

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#bashful #distant #eyes #gentle #gentleman

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

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