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Quotes About Expansion

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900; I'd like people to look at it and think, 'How the hell did he end up right over there?
~ Nick Hornby
Bearing a banner of American democracy, the United States was, in other words, on the move — producing planes, tanks, and matériel on a scale that beggared description: fifty-two thousand airplanes, twenty-three thousand tanks, forty thousand artillery guns in the first six months of 1943 alone, he reported. American shipyards were launching "almost five ships a day.
~ Nigel Hamilton
I discovered then that the world I was living in was so much more interesting than the world I was capable of conceiving.
~ Nora Ephron
Love has no end, no borders, no limits. The more you give, the more there is.
~ Nora Roberts
I couldn't let it be the only place you really know. You're meeting different people now, people who come from different places, have other views, other goals. It's an opportunity for you to explore possibilities, potential, beyond right
~ Nora Roberts
Love makes room, Brad. There's always more room for love.
~ Nora Roberts
U—The Universe Is Expanding
~ Norman L. Geisler
Edwin Hubble looked through his telescope more than a decade later that scientists finally confirmed that the universe is expanding and that it's expanding from a single point.
~ Norman L. Geisler
He was going to take in, possess the whole of the world. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi? Fuck off. He wanted more.
~ Christos Tsiolkas
everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust. Everywhere there are rusted nails to step on or snag your elbow on, and there's only one bathroom for the seven
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Porque después de haber cruzado ciertas líneas ya nunca dejas de cruzarlas.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
He has never won a game of Galactic Expansion against the repurposed interrogator droid. But he's close now. It's never been this close.
~ Chuck Wendig
Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand. This world isn't the only one.
~ CLAMP
Man was spread thin throughout the galaxy. A lone man here, a handful there. Slim blobs of bone and brain and muscle to hold a galaxy in check. Slight shoulders to hold up the cloak of human greatness spread across the light-years. For Man had flown too fast, had driven far beyond his physical capacity.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back garden…man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials.
~ Colin Wilson
I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. Our destiny by divine
~ Colson Whitehead
The only true way to expand your world is to inhabit an otherness beyond ourselves. There is one simple word for this: empathy. Don't let them fool you. Empathy is violent. Empathy is tough. Empathy can rip you open. Once you go there, you can be changed. Get ready: they will label you sentimental. But the truth is that the cynics are the sentimental ones.
~ Colum McCann
What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.
~ Virginia Woolf
Am dorit întotdeauna s? dilat noaptea È™i s? o umplu din ce în ce mai mult cu vise.
~ Virginia Woolf
Her horizon seemed to her limitless. There were all the places she had not seen;
~ Virginia Woolf
Desejei dilatar a noite para a encher de sonhos.
~ Virginia Woolf
as perhaps at midnight, when all boundaries are lost
~ Virginia Woolf
How strange to feel the line that is spun from us lengthening its fine filament across the misty spaces of the intervening world
~ Virginia Woolf
I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape.
~ Virginia Woolf