Vast Quotes

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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it. — Carl Nielsen
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it… — Peter Ustinov
There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,… — Eric Hoffer
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for… — Daniel J. Boorstin
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which… — Malcolm Muggeridge
By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore… — Rosalind Wiseman
In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including… — Li Peng
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. — John Dryden
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard.… — Nelson DeMille
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid… — Amy Lowell
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. — Herman Wouk
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be… — Alphonse Daudet
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their… — Joseph de Maistre
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to… — Eugene V. Debs
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of… — Mark Strand
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be… — Alfred de Vigny
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon… — Edward Dahlberg
Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time… — Milton Sapirstein
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly… — Jonathan Raban
The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to… — Aaron Levie
I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village… — Pranab Mukherjee
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of… — Kenzaburo Oe
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored. — Mahatma Gandhi

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