Remoteness Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is.The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. — Kaleel Jamison

As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat. — Sharon Gannon

Watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow. — The Band Perry

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne. — E.L. Doctorow

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them. — Patricia Briggs

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain. — Maimonides

[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing
such as making love. — G.K. Chesterton

Like so many women before me, I was a slave to the caveman brain, that deep old part of my DNA that whispered that ferocity would keep me safe and fed and alive and that I should most definitely find the fiercest creature around and hump it.
Dawson, Delilah S. (2012-03-27). Wicked as They Come (Blud) (p. 309). Pocket Books. Kindle Edition. — Delilah S. Dawson

You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself. — Joseph Frank Bianco

I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve. — Fergus Henderson

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there. — J.D. Robb