Afar Quotes

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

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.

I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows

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.

I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa...as a job, it would probably be a safari guide.

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

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.

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.

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.

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?

how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.

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.

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.

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.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

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.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

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

It's always easy to judge from afar

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

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.

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.