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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot

Travel, Makes, Deeds

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

History, Moving, Past

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom Stoppard

Someone, Movie, Crush

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

Love, Hate, America

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

Power, Healing, Eyes

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

Men, Live, Brain

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

Lost, Country, Free

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

Work, Great, Find

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Daryl Hannah

Someone, Movie, Crush

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.
Julian Barnes

Ourselves, Suddenly, Objective

The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.
Randy Moss

Special, England, Patriots

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

Time, Normal, Admire

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

Beat, Google, Systems

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

Love, Good, Mean

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
James Beattie

Hard, Proud, Tell

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

War, Different, Unfair

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

Life, Education, Means

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.
Daniel H. Hill

Fight, Nothing, Real

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
Sam Walter Foss

Seek, Bucket, Drop

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
William Davenant

Off, Fame, River

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