Vast Quotes
1501 Vast quotes by 1104 unique authors
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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
— Rachel Carson
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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand…
— John Muir
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The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.
— Gifford Pinchot
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security…
— Robert Toombs
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You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your…
— John Henninger Reagan
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My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way—…
— Emily Dickinson
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago.…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem…
— Adrian Desmond
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The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light;…
— John Paul Caponigro
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Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are…
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
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I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks…
— Khalil Gibran
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know…
— Ansel Adams
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Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a…
— Henrietta Rose-Innes
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We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream,…
— Robert Edmond Jones
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Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
— Margo Kingston
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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
— John Galt
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From…
— William Wordsworth
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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and…
— William Wordsworth
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The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern…
— Winston Churchill
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What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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