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Quotes About Horizon

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
~ Sir Humphrey Gilbert
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The first brush of violet painted the horizon
~ Ben Carson
The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent.
~ Beryl Markham
Each of us craves utterly unfailing love: a love that is unconditional, unwavering, radical, demonstrative, broader than the horizon, deeper than the sea. And it would be nice if that love were healthy, liberating rather than suffocating, and whole. Interestingly, the Word of God uses the phrase "unfailing love" thirty-two other times, and not one of them refers to any source other than God, Himself.
~ Beth Moore
John has always been searching for something," says Jennifer Irwin, McAfee's girlfriend at the time. She remembers him telling her once that he was trying to reach "the expansive horizon.
~ Joshua Davis
Leía libros antiguos porque todo horizonte viene de otro atrás.
~ Juan Gelman
L'orizzonte è il tuo corpo. L'orizzonte è la mia anima. Raggiungo il tuo limite: ancora sabbia. Raggiungi il mio limite: ancora acqua.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
In Australia, the dawn is an arsonist who pours petrol along the horizon, throws a match on it and watches it burn.
~ Julia Baird
It's a curse, really," Lady Danbury said. "I'm the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing." "Most would call that a blessing." She snorted. "Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.
~ Julia Quinn
I should love to see a ground-glass blue ocean
~ Julia Quinn
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
~ Raghuram Rajan
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
~ James Russell Lowell
On the far horizon waved some flicker of light My heart, a city of suffering, awoke in a state of dream My eyes, turning restless, still dreaming, the morning, dawning in this vacuous abode of separation.
~ Faiz Ahmed Faiz
The evening, lacking intelligent relations, crumbles down into the haze of the horizon.)
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Aquello que he considerado como apego a la propiedad, no es más que el instinto carnal del campesino, hijo de campesinos, nacido de aquellos que, desde hace siglos, interrogan con angustia el horizonte.
~ Francois Mauriac
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped and--who knows?--self-pitying mountains, sad and harsh beneath their frivolous greenery.
~ bishop elizabeth iii
All I ever learned was that, having reached that limit, another horizon would open up, and that I had to keep on driving myself, escaping toward a horizon line that was forever receding, until today, here, as I walked beside the frozen river, the entire horizon turned back and came at me from all sides and its lines passed through me, creating a central point that did not impinge on me but rather came back to my hands and feet like a boomerang.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagrarian Eastern travellers, glancing from car-windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying caparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without.
~ Booth Tarkington
You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.
~ Haruki Murakami
Dawn in Mongolia was an amazing thing. In one instant, the horizon became a faint line suspended in the darkness, and then the line was drawn upward, higher and higher. It was as if a giant hand had stretched down from the sky and slowly lifted the curtain of night from the face of the earth. It was a magnificent sight, far greater in scale...than anything that I, with my limited human faculties, could fully comprehend.
~ Haruki Murakami
It almost hurt to look at that far-off sky.
~ Haruki Murakami
Bringing my face close to the glass, I looked out at the wide expanse of ocean. The horizon seemed to be pushing up against the sky. I followed the line where the sky met the water from end to end. No human being could draw a line so beautiful, whatever ruler they might use.
~ Haruki Murakami