#distant

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#animal #badly #beyond #cousins #creation

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#babylon #borders #bridge #communication #communications

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#country #distant #glimpses #had #home

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#chair #distant #door #down #duty

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ↗

— John Burroughs

#difficult #distant #great #great opportunity #lure

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#anchor #arrived #come #continued #course

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. ↗

— Paul Valery

#distant #fine #finite number #infinite #infinite number

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#love #most #naturally #possibility

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#cannot #countless #distant #entire #faint