Quotes About Horizon

I am left without answers. There are only questions I must answer for myself. What is the balance between home and the road? Hearth and horizon? Between what is and what could be?

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

the sun, which had been slipping into the far-off waterline of the horizon, took the last few degrees of its plunge and disappeared with tropical suddenness, leaving them only the fading blue of the sky.

My favorite color… the seam of a desert horizon.

The pre-dawn air was quiet and cool; the sky showed the colors of citron, pearl, and apricot, which were reflected from the sea. Out from the Tumbling River estuary drifted the black ship Smaadra, propelled across the water by its sweeps. A mile offshore, the sweeps were shipped. The yards were raised, sails sheeted taut and back-stays set up. With the sunrise came breeze; the ship glided quickly and quietly into the east, and presently Troicinet had become a shadow along the horizon.

If we are bound and determined to speak in terms of reference, nuclear war is the only possible referent of any discourse and any experience that would share their condition with that of literature. If, according to a structuring hypothesis, a fantasy or phantasm, nuclear war is equivalent to the total destruction of the archive, if not of the human habitat, it becomes the absolute referent, the horizon and the condition of all the others.

he glimpsed, briefly, the distant bridge which glowed like something written in the sky.

The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness.

This was the place, the place I would have come on my own wandering binge, come here and lodged like a marble in a crack, this place, a haven for California Okies and exiled Texans, a home for country folk lately dispossessed, their eyes so empty of hope that they reflect hot, windy plains, spare, almost Biblical sweeps of horizon broken only by the spines of an orphaned rocking chair, and beyond this, clouded with rage, the reflections of orange groves and ax handles.

Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.

Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze. ?

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

...And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

Me dije entonces que la oscuridad es sólo una ilusión, porque el sol está siempre encima o debajo del horizonte. Eso significa que la noche y el día están vinculados como pocas otras cosas;no puede existir el uno sin el otro, y sin embargo, tampoco pueden coexistit. ¿Cómo estar siempre juntos, y al mismo tiempo siempre separados?

Percebi então, o crepúsculo,é apenas uma ilusão, porque o sol ou está acima ou abaixo do horizonte. E isso quer dizer que o dia e a noite estão ligados de uma maneira como poucas coisas o estão - não pode haver uma coisa sem a outra, porém não podem existir ao mesmo tempo. Como seria a sensação, lembro de me perguntar, de estar sempre juntos, porém para sempre separados?

The higher we went the more our spirits seemed to become purged and exalted. Once again I felt the influence on the soul of pure air, easy breathing and a vast horizon. Anyone would think the soul, too, was an animal with lungs and nostrils, and that it needed oxygen, was stifled in the dust or in the midst of too much stale breath.

The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you're approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away