Quotes About Horizon

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

or Hellespont, is beginning to catch the growing light.

Between them they estimated a fleet of something between 12 and 18 full war galleys composed of a mixture of triremes and biremes, then 70 to 80 smaller fustae, about 25 parandaria – heavy transport barges – and a number of light brigantines and other small message boats, a force of about 140 boats in all. It was an awesome sight to glimpse over the curve of the western horizon.

One red gash of sunset shone....

Era come se in quel momento stesse contemplando al di là della sterminata pianura e oltre i vulcani l'enorme tumultuoso azzurro oceano stesso, percependolo ancora dentro il cuore: l'impazienza illimitata, la brama incommensurabile.

It was a view I never tired of, especially

Hasta que, para colmar el encanto, surgió del mar la luna: primero entre las nieblas del horizonte como una lúgubre máscara de fuego que asomara amenazadora para espiar en medio de un silencio espantoso sus dominios marítimos; luego volviéndose paulatinamente más clara, reduciéndose exactamente a un níveo fulgor que ensanchó el mar en un plateado pálpito sin fin.

He ran until he didn't know where he was, except that it was waste lot midnight. The Kefahuchi Tract almost filled the sky, always growing as you watched, like the genie raging up out of the bottle, yet somehow never larger. It was a singularity without an event horizon, they said, the wrong physics loose in the universe. Anything could come out of there, but nothing ever did. Unless of course, Ed thought, what we have out here is already a result of what happens in there...

The moon set. The sun rose.

Her body was Yvonne's too, her legs, her breasts, her pounding passionate heart, electricity crackled under his fingers running over her, though the sentimental illusion was going, it was sinking into a sea, as though it had not been there, it had become the sea, a desolate horizon with one huge black sailing ship, hull down, sweeping into the sunset; or her body was nothing, an abstraction merely, a calamity, a fiendish apparatus for calamitous sickening sensation; it was disaster.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Por la ventana abierta se veía gran parte de la ciudad. Por sobre los techos el horizonte es azul e infinito. Entonces me dije a mí misma: Mientras exista este sol intenso y este cielo azul y mi corazón pueda sentirlo, no puedo estar triste.

Because to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about the world. That up close it makes no sense. Those of you who choose sensible people may feel secure, but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked. And if you have not shared somebody's tilted view of the horizon (which is the actual world), tell me: what have you really seen?

Less, as with a repentant worshipper, begins again to love his subject, and at last, one morning, after an hour sitting with his chin in his hand, watching birds cross the gray haze of the horizon, our benevolent god grants his character the brief benediction of joy.

He is not the best. But he is the best I ever had. Because to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about the world. That up close it makes no sense. Those of you who choose sensible people may feel secure, but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked. And if you have not shared somebody's tilted view of the horizon (which is the actual world), tell me: what have you really seen?

for pleasing to me are meadows and a far view

During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just kept moving toward that horizon.

The longer the time horizon, the less the variability in average annual returns. Investors should not underestimate their time horizons. An investor who begins contributing to a retirement plan at age 25, and then, in retirement, draws on the accumulated capital until age 75 and beyond, would have an investment lifetime of 50 years or more. Our colleges, universities, and many other durable institutions have essentially unlimited time horizons.

Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ...

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.