quotes about Afar
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
-- Ann Brashares -
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
-- Ben Elton -
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.
-- Bobby Sager -
I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar.
-- Brittany Snow -
It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.
-- Carol Birch -
As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.
-- Claire Messud -
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In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.
-- Cynthia Leitich SmithSource : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Tantalize”, p.310, Candlewick Press
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I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.
-- David Levithan -
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
-- Edward Rowland SillSource : Edward Rowland Sill (1972). “The Poetical Works of Edward Rowland Sill”
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I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
-- Gena Showalter -
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Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.
-- George GamowSource : George Gamow (1965). “Matter, Earth, and Sky”
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
-- Giordano Bruno -
We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.
-- Heather BrewerSource : Heather Brewer (2008). “Eighth Grade Bites #1: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.33, Penguin
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how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.
-- Irving LaytonSource : Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing
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I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.
-- James Fallows -
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
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Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.
-- Jean Ingelow -
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The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.
-- John Bytheway -
Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions, but these are only guesses based on what they see from afar.
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When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.
-- Josh Hartnett -
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been treated or recognized at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to a prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli -
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
-- Pliny the Elder -
The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.
-- Randy Moss -
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Faith is a bluebird you see from afar, it's for real and as sure as the first evening star. You can't touch it or buy it or wrap it up tight, but it's there all the same, making things turn out right.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.
-- Ryan Gosling -
Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
-- Sam Walter Foss -
There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.
-- Susan Meiselas -
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Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.
-- Timothy MortonSource : Timothy Morton (2007). “Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics”, p.5, Harvard University Press
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A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
-- Tom Stoppard -
I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.
-- Troye Sivan -
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
-- William Davenant -
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With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.
-- Guido Palau -
We are taking additional measures to ensure security and stability in Tal Afar and to restore its people's rights
-- Ibrahim al-Jaafari -
What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
-- Isaiah -
I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.
-- Carol Emshwiller -
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Love everybody. If they do you wrong or they brush you the wrong way it's OK, you don't have to hold on to that, you can still love them from afar; you don't have to really deal with them.
-- Chris Johnson