1.
Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.
Yuri Gagarin
Gazing at the globe from a distance, it becomes apparent that it is too tiny for discord and precisely the right size for collaboration.
2.
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.
Niccolo Machiavelli
3.
I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.
Troye Sivan
I refer to it as monitoring from a distance, they label it as trailing.
4.
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
5.
Why do we have to have people come from afar to come and grow food for us, or to grow food to sell to us? It is partly because we are almost becoming used to people doing things for us. Like somebody else is going to solve that problem for us. And that to me is very disempowering system.
Wangari Maathai
6.
I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
Giordano Bruno
7.
We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
8.
Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
Jack London
9.
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
10.
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
11.
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
Mencius
12.
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
13.
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
14.
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
15.
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
Aeschylus
16.
In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.
Greta Van Susteren
17.
Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions, but these are only guesses based on what they see from afar.
John of Damascus
19.
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
20.
Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.
Confucius
21.
Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
Sam Walter Foss
22.
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
Baltasar Gracian
23.
Love everybody. If they do you wrong or they brush you the wrong way it's OK, you don't have to hold on to that, you can still love them from afar; you don't have to really deal with them.
Chris Johnson
24.
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
Pindar
25.
The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.
John Bytheway
26.
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
Bill Vaughan
28.
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
William Davenant
29.
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
30.
The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.
Mencius
31.
Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?
Rainer Maria Rilke
32.
In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
33.
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
Ben Elton
34.
Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres - and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.
Richard Salter Storrs
35.
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
36.
We are taking additional measures to ensure security and stability in Tal Afar and to restore its people's rights
Ibrahim al-Jaafari
37.
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
38.
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
39.
The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.
Randy Moss
40.
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
41.
I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.
Bobby Sager
42.
With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.
Guido Palau
43.
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
44.
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
45.
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
46.
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
Gena Showalter
47.
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
48.
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
49.
I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.
Carol Emshwiller
50.
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