Far Away Quotes - Page 17

• Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Land, Together

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.466, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moments, Stills, Bounds

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• You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

  Daniel Handler

  Sweet, Thinking, Doors

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• Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Air, Land, Knowing

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• If he's at this party, I want you to stay far away from him." "Shouldn't that rule apply to you, and Jules, too? Unless your penises make you magically bulletproof.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Party, Want, Bulletproof

  Suzanne Brockmann (2013). “Force of Nature: Troubleshooters 11: Troubleshooters 11”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, People, Naked

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

  Robert Fulghum

  Christmas, Children, Memories

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• To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?

  Confucius

  People, Worry, Joy

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• 'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

  Daniel Handler

  Love Is, Helping, Help Me

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• What do you think love is - a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it whither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing will fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Hurt, Heart, Love Is

  "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld". Book by Patricia A. McKillip, 1974.

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• Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Sometimes

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.288, Pan Macmillan

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• I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.276, Random House

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• This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Distance, Insomnia, Copies

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.21, Random House

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• Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

  Norton Juster

  Ignorance, Like You, Said

  Norton Juster (1961). “The phantom tollbooth”

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• I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

  Daniel Handler

  Relationship, Stars, Fall

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• There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Travel, Magic, Going Away

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.357, e-artnow

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• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
  And give us not to think so far away
  As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
  All simply in the springing of the year.
  
  Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
  Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
  And make us happy in the happy bees,
  The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Flower, Thinking

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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• If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into a new law? Once we do that, religious fascism with all its sectarian ugliness cannot be far away. Far better a mistaken Christian (a heretic) who has somehow caught the Spirit of Christ, than an orthodox Protestant who thinks that the Spirit is mediated to him through the letter of correct theology.

  Robert D. Brinsmead

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
  So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
  But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Long, Meditation

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• Even though there may be times It seems I'm far away Never wonder where I am 'Cause I am always by your side.

  Celine Dion

  Love, Your Side, Causes

  Song: The Power Of Love

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• All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  Sun Tzu

  Strong, Arrogance, Deception

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• All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Believe

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

  Mira Sorvino

  Good Life, People, Important

  "'Beautiful Girls' a Valentine's Day film with a message". www.cnn.com. February 9, 1996.

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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