Vast Quotes

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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.… — Victor Hugo
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces. — Paulo Coelho
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion,… — John Robert Seeley
Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you… — Travis Beacham
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual. — Norman Mailer
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most… — Thomas Sowell
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people… — Daniel Pinchbeck
The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
Television is a vast wasteland. — Newton N. Minow
It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using… — Mike Hulme
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had… — H.G. Wells
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left… — Gerry Spence
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. — Unknown Author
Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but… — Ralph W. Moss
Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence… — Vernon Coleman
That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden — Peter McWilliams
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car… — Fareed Zakaria
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the… — Alan Lightman
There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited… — Vincent de Paul
Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and… — Don DeLillo
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given… — Johannes Kepler
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of… — Isaac Newton
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are… — Carl Sagan
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great… — Frank Waters
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles… — Jacques Barzun

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