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- Nov 07, 2020
Faraway Quotes
The pull of somewhere else entirely
Several quotes here treat faraway places as a kind of magic, describing deserts and distant lands as forms of thirst or wonder rather than simple geography. Read Country quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might help to know that in Afghanistan citizenship papers and birth certificates and the official registration of births and deaths are the exotica of faraway places. One is born 'in the time of the pomegranate harvest' or some such thing or one's birthdate is recorded as the first day of the year if you are even aware of the year you were born.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world's biggest challenge comes from the threats of climate change and terrorism. In India's case, terrorism is not bred in some faraway land but from across our border.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don't need by confronting each of your possessions properly.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.
- Bows
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet... that's cool.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
- Far Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020