Far Away Quotes - Page 18

• There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Hands, Giving

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• Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.

  Rick Perry

  Father, Crazy, Government

  "Perry Slips Up on History of American Revolution" by Jake Gibson, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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• By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spiritual, Mean, Winning

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.20, TAN Books

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• Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Meaningful, Knowing, Truth Is

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• My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

  Margaret Mead

  Learning, School, Grandmother

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• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

  Jim Bishop

  Life, Change, New Year

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• Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dog, Dragons, Knives

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Feelings, Sorrow, Wish

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.

  John Gray

  Love You, Kissing, Night

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• The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Beautiful, Heart, Sky

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.81, Melville House

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• He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls.

  Nelson Algren

  Wall, Fall, Dark

  Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.58, Seven Stories Press

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• Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pugs, Ugly

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Heart, Talking

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• You are my Guardian Angel, Maddy,” a voice said, but it was far away from her.

  Scott Speer

  Angel, Voice, Guardian

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• There’s a general rule that I always go by, and it’s that you fall for who you fall for. Whatever small issue you get hung up on, whether it’s because they’re shorter than you, younger than you or they live far away - if you really are crazy about someone, none of that matters.

  Taylor Swift

  Crazy, Fall, Issues

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• I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I.

  Veronica Roth

  Voice, Judging, Sound

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• Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Boys, Thinking, Giving

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• Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

  Marisha Pessl

  Couple, Ocean, People

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• He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Kissing, Land

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

  Jim Bishop

  Time, Memories, Minutes

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• We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, People, Church

  "Pope Francis on gay marriage, unmarried mothers ... and journalists", www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

  Annie Dillard

  Years, Would Be, Wake Up

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

  Rita Dove

  Dream, Book, Persons

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• Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.

  Philippa Gregory

  Kings, Prayer, Eye

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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• Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

  Franz Kafka

  Running, Wall, Cat

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