The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer. Votes: 3
If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times. Votes: 3
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us. Votes: 3
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view. Votes: 3
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.' Votes: 1
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. Votes: 1
WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. Votes: 1
We have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death, the like of which would never happen to Gen. Cass. Place stacks a thousand miles apart: he would stand stock still, midway between them, and eat them both at once; and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some, too, at the same time. Votes: 1
And there it is: Even though weâre standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart. Votes: 0
Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man. Votes: 3 Johnny Hunt
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Votes: 6 Rabindranath Tagore