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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between… — J. A. Spender
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I… — Yann Martel
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should… — Colm Toibin
You have everything you need. A miraculous body, a phenomenal brain, and a vast powerful subconscious mind. Now it's just a matter of focusing them… — Mark Allen
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these… — Ada Lovelace
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes… — Anthony Hecht
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin… — Robert E. Lee
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. — Giorgio de Chirico
It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place, — James Cameron
The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of… — Satya Nadella
Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul. — John Flavel
If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your… — Marie Dressler
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens… — Kenny Smith
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well,… — Dave Eggers
To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated... — Mick LaSalle
It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too… — S E Hinton
When we will all see our role in society as servants, we will all light up the sky together like countless stars on a dark… — Vinoba Bhave
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach… — Kevin DeYoung
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors. — James Branch Cabell
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which… — Henry David Thoreau
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which… — Henry David Thoreau

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