Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
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EDWARD ALBEE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS We have, in my view, come some distance, ... We got a long way to go before that can be achieved.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
JAMES JOYCE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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ILONA ANDREWS Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI He's come a long way in a short time that last outing. It will be very interesting to see if he can ...
JACKIE MOORE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT This is a long way off, equivalent to two thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
HORST UWE KELLER As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I lov...
KEVIN CONROY As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
ANTHONY LICCIONE During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.
UZOMA NNADI He's come a long way in what I consider to be a very short time,
JAMES DAVIS The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I hope so. But I don't expect her to go out and improve on that distance every meet. If she continue...
ERROL LOGUE A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ...
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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
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ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
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EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Long distance Dating has 80% chances of collapsing, at delicate times you need the person, you would...
OLASOT We have a long way to go and a very short time to get the work done.
DON HOWARD You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR When I saw him at his best
When everything was at its worst
He has proven me and the rest of the wor...
HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS With you I could never be alone our love are carved in a stone
Tomorrow when the sun raises everythi...
HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS It will be a welcome change for her to feel his hands on her hips and his breath in her hair; She's ...
DONNA LYNN HOPE The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He’ll shou...
M.J. EBERHART This was not his best distance, but he was trying hard the whole way.
He galloped out real strong...
EDGAR PRADO We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our...
LEWIS THOMAS Slow but sure, we kept spreading it out, and we never were going to let them come back within striki...
CHAD CLUVER Is prayer a LOCAL or LONG DISTANCE call?
LESLIE MIKLOSY Ultimately virility is all about helping others express their reluctantly shared feelings while doin...
KEN POIROT The way to Heaven out of all places is of like length and distance
THOMAS MORE Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often...
GEOFF HOON Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeab...
AMBROSE BIERCE Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreea...
AMBROSE BIERCE Do we need distance to get close?
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JEANNE FLECK It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins ...
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CLARENCE WILLIAMS was very gracious in listening to a recitation of memos that go back a long way. I think the record ...
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ASTRODOST If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.
JAIME CABRERA You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.
FREDERICK BUECHNER It’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their m...
KELSEY SUTTON This is fantastic for the boys. We've come a long way in a very short time.
CARL RITTENOUR When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Edward Albee acutely understands the function of art in a free society. As America's premier living ...
EMILY MANN In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don...
ELLIOT MABEUSE A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
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EDWARD ALBEE I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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EDWARD ALBEE The gods too are fond of a joke.
EDWARD ALBEE I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.
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EDWARD ALBEE What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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EDWARD ALBEE I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
EDWARD ALBEE If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
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EDWARD ALBEE One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive i...
EDWARD ALBEE American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEE I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
EDWARD ALBEE ... what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a...
EDWARD ALBEE You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your l...
EDWARD ALBEE I write to find out what I'm talking about.
EDWARD ALBEE I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather...
EDWARD ALBEE You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
EDWARD ALBEE It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
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EDWARD ALBEE Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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EDWARD ALBEE A lot of policy makers have no idea what a very small percentage of what they think is affordable ho...
GAYLE ALBEE I'm learning a lot of new things. I thought I had reached an age where I could forget what I did kno...
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EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
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EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
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EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
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EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise.
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EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
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EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
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EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
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EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
...
EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
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EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
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EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON