Quotes with still-distant

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  • William Shakespeare Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Winston Churchill Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Armstrong Williams Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Albert Ellis Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Robert Burton Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Adam Ferguson Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Terry Eagleton Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur ''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,'' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Bjork Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Tama Janowitz Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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  • Auberon Waugh Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
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  • Leo Buscaglia Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Barry Cornwall Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bruce Lee Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
    Artist of Life
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Sydney Joseph Perelman Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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  • C. S. Lewis Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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