Quotes About Expansive

The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

The universe is vast and we're its greatest mystery

Enormous vistas of thought were unrolling in my mind.

the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, green with trees, rainbowed with flowers.

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Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia's intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Scenery here in Canada is by the mile, whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur, vastness and expansive views.

The brain is wider than the sky.

My motto: sans limites.

Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.

Is reality exhausted by what is, or does it leave room for all that could be?

Space is really domain expansion.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

I like to be in big open spaces with high skies.

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.

A little parallelogram of sky was all that she had hitherto known of nature, so that she felt the awfulness that really exists in its limitless extent.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

a desert more vast than the continental United States

Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.

The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea.

We stood in the doorway, the whole world opening up before us. God, there was so much of it.