Quotes About Horizon

There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible; its broad disk just skirting the horizon, and diffusing a perpetual splendour.

This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my day dreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible; its broad disk just skirting the horizon, and diffusing a perpetual splendour

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in the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten.

Layers of orange like a buttermilk pie cooling on the horizon.

In Mississippi it is difficult to achieve a vista.

Its only boundary was the horizon, the sill of the sky, separating what the eye could see from what the mind might imagine.

It was the Tower. The Dark Tower. It stood on the horizon of a vast plain the color of blood in the violent setting of a dying sun. He couldn't see the stairs which spiraled up and up and up within its brick shell, but he could see the windows which spiraled up along that staircase's way, and saw the ghosts of all the people he had ever known pass through them. Up and up they marched, and an arid wind brought him the sound of voices calling his name.

Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

He just stared at the far-off horizon, slowly dissolving in the morning mist, toward the fields of Bagumbayan, toward the still sleeping sea.

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky....

As I stared out at the grim skyline, a bright sliver of the sun peeked over the horizon. Watching it rise, I performed a mental ritual: Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

I blinked and looked again—but it was still out there, a shiny chrome disc zigzagging around in the sky. My eyes struggled to track the object through a series of increasingly fast, impossibly sharp turns that would have juiced a human being, had there been any aboard. The disc streaked toward the distant horizon, then came to an instantaneous stop just above it. It hovered there motionless over the distant tree line for a few seconds, as if scanning

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.

It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over.

Bombentrichter und Gräben haben einen engen Horizont. Er reicht nicht weiter als einen Handgranatenwurf.

Dalla cima di una salita si vedono le cose lontane. Non che ci s avvicini al cielo, [...] perchè da qualunque altezza, pure dalla sommità dell'Everest, [...] il cielo resta remoto ed irraggiungibile. Dalla sommità di una salita si sta solo distanti dalla terra, raggiungendo il suo ultimo gradino. [La faccia delle nuvole]

As the sun disappeared below the horizon and its glare no longer reflected off a glassy sea, I thought of how beautiful the sunsets always were in the Pacific. They were even more beautiful than over Mobile Bay. Suddenly a thought hit me like a thunderbolt. Would I live to see the sunset tomorrow?

Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

Difficile è credere che sia un dono la vita, quando si trascina una stanca esistenza e il vivere d'ora in ora ci tortura; ma anche nei tuoi occhi vedo brume di dolore. Hanno già flagellato il tuo giovane cuore? E rispose per te il mare e un' ombra lieve di cormorano. Tacevi e sogguardavi mesta l'orizzonte estremo.

There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.