Quotes About Horizon

XXVIII. Sie liebte es, auf dem Balkone Dem Nahn des Frührots zuzusehn, Wenn in der blaßren Himmelszone Die Sterne nach und nach vergehn Und sacht der Horizont sich lichtet, Ein Wehn vom Morgen schon berichtet, Und dann der Tag allmählich steigt...

It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when England remembers that there is a sun. The star of the day, pale but nevertheless still splendid, was setting in the horizon, glorifying at one the heavens and the sea with bands of fire, and casting upon the tower and the old houses of the city a last ray of gold which made the windows sparkle like the reflection of a conflagration.

the sun set . . . with guillotine-like speed this close to the equator.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

It's as if, from the vantage point of a verandah bed, that great expanse of sky rolls in over us from the very edge of existence.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

The sequence of thinking before acting is the exact definition of the word plan. Therefore, speculating and planning are the same thing. A plan allows you to speculate with a long time horizon (as an investor), a short time horizon (as a trader), or on a spread relationship (as a basis trader or hedger).

Behind him lay the gray Azores,Behind the Gates of Hercules;Before him not the ghost of shores,Before him only shoreless seas.

What leftists call the loss of the political is the fog they wander through because they've lost sight of the communist horizon.

It was nearly midnight, and the stillness that reigned was rather soothed than interrupted by the gentle dashing of the waters of the bay below, and by the hollow murmurs of Vesuvius, which threw up, at intervals, its sudden flame on the horizon, and then left it to darkness.

A cold ship moves out of harbor somewhere way inside the wife and slides off toward the flat gray horizon, not a bird not a breath in sight.

I spent much of my childhood staring straight ahead at the hood of a car and America unrolling to the horizon. Father drove with eyes on the road. Stop the tape and look at these people, one young and one old. Like two stars hung in a deep wind in space, who appear motionless as they hurtle toward each other at 186,213 miles per second in a silence that cracks a wall.

How does distance look?' is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. It depends on light.

Es un secreto a voces, entre los peregrinos y otros teóricos de esta vida viajera, que te vuelves adicto al horizonte

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

I saw it dissolve into a strangely clear horizon-there, a striated pyramid, stood the extinct volcano, a pain filled, deeply moving sight: permanence.

Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.

Appena uscito da un'infanzia vagamente triste e diversa, una volta, nel contemplare da un colle la linea maestosa dei monti che azzurrina, in profili, scompariva all'orizzonte, nel contemplare i campi, mi parve all'improvviso che tutto scomparisse, prendendo [...] e che un abisso invisibile, una cosa che non somigliava all'esistenza occupasse - non lo spazio, ma il modo in cui io pensavo il visibile.

Eastrod filled his head and then went out beyond and filled the space that stretched from the train across the empty darkening fields.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

For being in a place that's landlocked, Minnesotans have a real sense of the wider world. Teachers, friends, neighbors - everywhere I went in Minnesota, people put their heads up and looked out to the horizon.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.