Expanse Quotes

61 quotes by 55 authors

The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse… — Unknown Author
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had… — Charlotte Bronte
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took… — Boris Pasternak
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the… — Kate Chopin
Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side… — Mary E. Pearson
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of… — Gustave Flaubert
Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces. — Scott Westerfeld
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all… — Susanna Clarke
Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse. — David Levithan
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its… — Michel Foucault
I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious,… — Bede Griffiths
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse,… — Walter Isaacson
The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either. — Amish Tripathi
They were standing in a very large room. The floorboards stretched in a pale expanse at their feet. There was so much dust on the… — Sarah Rees Brennan
The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless… — Ha-Joon Chang
My mind, Is, and has always been, A House of Doors, An Endless Labyrinth, Of Tunnels, Traps, Hidden Wonders, And Horrors, In equal Measure. I… — Eric Nickel
For me, Hopes, Are grains of sand. That can, Slip through my fingers. Yet I have learned, When I combine them, With the tears, Of… — Eric Nickel
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars… — Unknown Author

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