Vast Quotes
1501 Vast quotes by 1104 unique authors
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The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a…
— Bruno Latour
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My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is,…
— H.G. Wells
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The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan…
— Jonathan Edwards
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We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite…
— Michael Cunningham
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This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are…
— Winston Churchill
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I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still…
— Hal Borland
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An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a…
— C.S. Lewis
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If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change…
— Richard Dawkins
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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and…
— H.G. Wells
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Inside skull vast as outside skull
— Allen Ginsberg
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Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide,…
— Thomas Mann
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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle…
— Dean Koontz
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I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in…
— Sarah Dessen
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The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are the…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of…
— David Attenborough
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Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are…
— Dan Brown
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It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day, should be sooner…
— Nora Roberts
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I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even…
— Louis C. K.
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Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
— Naomi Wolf
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The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
— Milan Kundera
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Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only…
— Antonio Machado
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I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests;…
— Anne Rice
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The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the…
— John Green
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There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we…
— Steven Erikson
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Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into…
— Scott Westerfeld
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