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Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. -- Sam Walter Foss
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. -- George Eliot
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. -- Tom Stoppard
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them. -- David Byrne
I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain. -- Cathy Guisewite
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. -- George Eliot
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
The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it. -- Jeff Miller
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. -- Willa Cather
It's always easy to judge from afar -- Roberto Mancini
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. -- Bill Vaughan
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star. -- Walter Scott
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home. -- Edward Rowland Sill
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. -- William Davenant
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? -- George Eliot
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. -- Baltasar Gracian
We are taking additional measures to ensure security and stability in Tal Afar and to restore its people's rights -- Ibrahim al-Jaafari
The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night. -- Gautama Buddha
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then -- James Russell Lowell
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; -- William Wordsworth
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air. -- Erasmus Darwin
The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is. -- Theodore Hesburgh
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are. -- Edgar Guest
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face. -- Francis of Assisi
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. -- Thomas Carlyle
George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work. -- Bill Cosby
The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar. -- Randy Moss
I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar. -- Paul Auster
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock. -- Julian Barnes
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. -- Tom Stoppard
Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility. -- Jakob Bohme
If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. -- Mary Antin
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
When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me. -- Luke Pasqualino
I think: 'Wouldn't it be great to work with Bill Murray?' And then I'm like, 'You know what, just appreciate Bill Murray from afar, don't find out that maybe he's not the dude you want to work with.' -- Kevin Smith
Lamentably, alien audiences may be frustrated by the switch to digital television. That's because the transmitter power for DTV is fairly evenly spread across the spectrum. The spikiness is gone, and from afar, the attention-grabbing squeals of analog television's carriers have been replaced by DTV's smooth, low hiss. -- Seth Shostak
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child. -- Queen Elizabeth II
I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built. -- Jeffrey Skoll
I like suits. I mean, I always feel good in a suit; I'm more of a suit guy than a shirt-and-jeans-type guy, probably. You know, like, I love Brad Goresky's style. And sometimes he'll wear a pair of, like, leopard pants, and I'm like, I couldn't pull that off, but I appreciate it from afar. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals? -- Ben Shapiro
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. -- Jose Rizal
The forehead of every work must shine from afar. -- Pindar
Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar. -- Robert Browning
I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking. -- Troye Sivan
Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar. -- Suman Pokhrel
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar. -- Aeschylus
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close. -- Gena Showalter
I saw her from afar. The game was afoot. I had astiffy. -- Jarod Kintz
Twinkle tiny star.Oh, how great you truly are!God's sign from afar. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar. -- Confucius
Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.] -- George Herbert
Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak. -- Rupert Brooke
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light. -- John Webster
In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever. -- Cynthia Leitich Smith
Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar. -- Mencius
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
Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation. -- Yuri Gagarin
We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star. -- John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted. -- Confucius
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. -- James Nachtwey
We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it. -- Ben Elton
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things. -- Mencius
Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore. -- Ray Romano
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 eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect. -- Sunday Adelaja
how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world. -- Irving Layton
Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew. -- Elizabeth Chase Allen
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians. -- Dan Simmons
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
That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean. -- Steve Coogan
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. -- Felicia Hemans
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
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult. -- Mencius
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. -- Chuck Baldwin
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 Brewer
How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face." -- Isaac Watts
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
Itâ??s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. Itâ??s like looking at the future. -- Carol Birch
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
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
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 Gamow
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove. -- James Joyce
Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being -- Rajneesh
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. -- Lewis H. Lapham
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith. -- Gerald Massey
She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led." -- L.M. Montgomery
Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near. -- Thomas Yalden
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
Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star. -- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow. -- Bryan Procter
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm. -- Boris Pasternak
I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up. -- Kirsten Smith
To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book. -- H.L. Stephens
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
You are like a city on the hill; you can't be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and your influence will be seen from afar! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way. -- Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth. -- Emma Lazarus
The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show. -- Tablo
It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits. -- KT Tunstall
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 Morton
Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
John Lee Hancock is someone that I had admired from afar. I think he is a wonderful director... in the tradition I would say both of Clint Eastwood and Frank Capra. -- Alison Owen
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
Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote. -- William Shakespeare
From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art. -- Colman Domingo
While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar. -- George Santayana
The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other. -- Stephen Beal

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