Far Away Quotes - Page 23

• What we do every day - whether you live in
  Mexico, the United States, Russia, China
  can have a very negative impact on
  an entire way of life for an entire people
  far away from that source

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Impact, Russia, People

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• The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Break Up, Country, People

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• Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Special, Equipment, Planets

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• But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

  Melody Carlson

  Running, Fear, Winning

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Finding Alice”, p.14, WaterBrook

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• My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

  David LaChapelle

  Dream, Reality, Everyday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

  Ian Frazier

  People, Needs

  "Bridge" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.

  John G. Kemeny

  Distance, Learning, Views

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• And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, Purple, World

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• Happiness can be close by, even if your heart is far away.

  Lisa Mangum

  Heart, Ifs

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• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

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• A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

  Earl Weaver

  Player, Should, Said

  Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

  Ruth Ozeki

  Dream, What If, Wake Up

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Believe, Men, Hands

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• Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away.

  Billiam Coronel

  Dog, Comedian, Looks

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• When you are far away from reality, your fantasy won't work.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Reality, Fantasy

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• Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

  Charles Van Doren

  America, Creative, West

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• The morning, which is like a farewell that approaches slowly from far away, while smiling... We are the sunshine in the night sky. It's as if the Night is sleepwalking. Slowly, we'll be forgotten.

  Lee Bo-na

  Morning, Drama, Farewell

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• The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, College, Views

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• Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

  Adam Riess

  Dark, Energy, Movement

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• I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

  Sepp Blatter

  Sports, Football, Thinking

  "Sepp Blatter admits Qatar World Cup error and backs winter switch" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2013.

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• There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

  Andrew Young

  Land, Saint, Glory

  "There Is a Happy Land". Song by Andrew Young, m.imdb.com. 1838.

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• My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

  Dan Gable

  Mind, Gone, Accomplish

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• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Unique, Our World

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• Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

  Dwyane Wade

  Son, Reality, Thinking

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• Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.

  Matt Damon

  Drinking, Reality, People

  "Actor Matt Damon's Clean Water Mission" by Imtiyaz Delawala and Cindy Smith, abcnews.go.com. November 27, 2011.

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