Vast Quotes
1501 Vast quotes by 1104 unique authors
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The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or…
— Camille Paglia
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It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.
— Tim Winton
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The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most…
— Fannie Hurst
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
— Larry McMurtry
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The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.
— Wayne Teasdale
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Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic…
— Guillermo del Toro
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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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God wants us to relieve suffering, pursue justice, facilitate reconciliation, and free the heart to love, but He desires for us to do so in…
— Dan B. Allender
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[T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?…
— Alexander Pope
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Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all are doom'd one common race…
— Robert Montgomery
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O for a summer noon, when light and breeze Sport on the grass, like ripples o’er a lake Alive with freshness! when the full round…
— Robert Montgomery
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And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty…
— Robert Montgomery
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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get…
— Joseph Epstein
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The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians...The 'worship'…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
— Tom Rath
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I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They live…
— Camille Paglia
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Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those…
— Gore Vidal
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel…
— H. L. Mencken
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I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
— Learned Hand
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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation…
— Victor Hugo
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