Far Away Quotes - Page 28

• When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Incompetence, Disaster

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• I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

  Paul Scholes

  Spring, Eye, Thinking

  "Lionel Messi Is a Genius and It Only Takes a Second for Him to Trick You Into Doing Something Daft – I Should Know!". Paul Scholes Column, www.independent.co.uk. February 19, 2015.

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• No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Hero, People, Temptation

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• There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

  Jane Kenyon

  Feet, Dust, Way

  Jane Kenyon (1996). “Otherwise: new and selected poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

  George Orwell

  Dust, Years, Knowing

  George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

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• At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• We're almost there, Oliver said. Once again Petunia was so startled that she tripped and would have fallen is Oliver hadn't caught her around the waist and pulled her upright. "You must have been far away," he said laughing.

  Jessica Day George

  Laughing, Caught, Said

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• We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.

  Lauren Graham

  Party, Dresses, Guests

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.196, Ballantine Books

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• But our love isn’t easy because it’s not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn’t want it any other way, not right now, with the morning sun making the curtains glow and Her arms around my neck and the sounds of the street so far away. I’m in it for the long haul, I’m not going away.

  Pete Wentz

  Morning, Sacrifice, Long

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.

  C.C. Hunter

  Sky, Heaven, Wish

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• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Blow

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• It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe you've got some idea how it felt: things coming alive around you, strange and new and utterly familiar at the same time; the catch in your heartbeat as you move through the rooms that had such a vivid untouchable life in your mind, as your feet actually touch the carpet, as you breathe the air; the odd, secret glow of warmth as these people you've been watching for so long, from so far away, open their circle and sweep you into it.

  Tana French

  Moving, Book, Feet

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• I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Adventure, Take Me, Please

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• Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

  Lucy Christopher

  Dark, Banshees, Made

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.195, Scholastic Inc.

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• People can really change. When they're far away from each other, their hearts will change. It's so cruel that the only thing I can do is wait. - Mouri Ran

  Gosho Aoyama

  Heart, People, Waiting

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• Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Cry, Enough, Friends Again

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Sugar," Tara said in a voice that was pure Pissed-Off South. "You need to go far, far away." A few weeks ago, he'd have taken that to mean she didn't want to see his face within a six-hundred-mile radius. Now he knew the truth. He distracted her. He could live with that. "Came to see if I can help." "I think I know how to make burgers," she said smoothly. "But bless your heart." In other words, f*** off and die.

  Jill Shalvis

  Taken, Heart, Mean

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• She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

  Cassandra Clare

  Window Shopping, Ugly, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Maybe the friend will talk about you sometimes, to other friends that live around him, and then that's almost as good as being there yourself. You're in several places at once! In fact, my daughter, I would even go so far as to say that the further away your friends, and the more spread out they are the better your chances of going safely through the world.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Daughter, Country, Cities

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• No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm." "You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences.

  Loretta Chase

  Self, Voice, Giving

  Loretta Chase, Anna Campbell (2014). “Regency Rogues and Rakes: Silk is for Seduction / Scandal Wears Satin / Vixen in Velvet / Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed / A Rake's Midnight Kiss / What a Duke Dares (Mills & Boon e-Book Collections)”, p.157, HarperCollins UK

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• To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Thinking, Giving

  Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.272, Hachette UK

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• I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Real, Passion, Ideas

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• I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Oh, you know something? I'm so far away from believing that it exists, and the only thing I know are jokes about it.

  Donald Sutherland

  Believe, Heaven, Gates

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• Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

  Pablo Neruda

  Feels, Whole

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.12, Macmillan

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