Quotes Tagged "distant"

Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.

I must be reminded that God often seems distant because I’ve made Him smaller than what He is and my struggles bigger than what they are.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.