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Quotes About Vast

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
~ Emily Mortimer
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
~ Peter Paul Rubens
we witness the idea that faith is born from an event that is so luminous we are left dazzled by its incoming—an event so deep that we are saturated by it, so vast that we are dwarfed by it, and so bright that we are blinded by it.
~ Peter Rollins
There is thus a mass of sectional interest groups. The CBI and the TUC in particular serve as umbrella organizations for a vast range of groups and th
~ Philip Norton
As I grew older, I frequently turned to the sky for comfort, and being reminded of my slight significance within the context of the vast and enigmatic universe, I was comforted.
~ Phillip Lewis
The thing about this bookshelf is that each of these books is a vast experience unto itself, while also being both self-contained and superbly useless. Reading any one of them doesn't get you anywhere particularly meaningful; you haven't arrived or graduated; you've just gone and done something that passed the time. It's like taking a long walk with a friend who's got a lot to say. There's not cumulative purpose to it - it's just an excellent way to waste your life.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I cling to this notion now because it is what allows me to feel a connection to a vast body of knowledge of which I am not master, much as I am able to live in a society bursting with information that I will never wholly comprehend. I take comfort from a lesson that seems implicit in the Talmud itself, which is that not knowing Torah is part of the lesson of Torah.
~ Jonathan Rosen
a ti también, en otras playas de oro, te aguarda incorruptible tu tesoro: la vasta y vaga y necesaria muerte.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La biblioteca es ilimitada y periódica.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows
~ Joseph Campbell
I am listless, I am a wanderer in my heart. In the sunny haze of the languid hours, what vast vision of thine takes shape in the blue of the sky!
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I rose to standing, like Lars upon the barbican, the dark city spread at my feet. Lights twinkled in tavern windows, bobbed at the Wolfstoot Bridge construction. Once I had been suspended over this vast space, hanging and helpless, at a dragon's mercy. Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own. We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
~ Rachel Hartman
To me, bigger is better.
~ Cindy Margolis
Love to me has no bounds.
~ Goldlink
Brook Lopez is huge!
~ Goran Dragic
Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
are patient, who are simply there in their vast, quiet tranquillity, as if eternity lay before them. It is a lesson I learn every day amid hardships I am thankful for: patience is all!
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
For our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
How much childhood is in that picture, and how everything is already settled there in the quiet, so indescribably lonely state of being a child, at the time when seated in an armchair one cannot touch the floor and with immense courage just keeps sitting there in that vast space which begins all around one and goes on and on. It is a very sweet and meaningful small picture. Thank you for letting me see it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We want the Exact and the Vast; we want our Dreams, and our Mathematics.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
~ Ram Dass
He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out the vents.
~ Ray Bradbury
One time, as a child in a power failure, his mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such illumination that space lost its vast dimensions and drew comfortably around them, and they, mother and son, alone, transformed, hoping that the power might not come on again too soon...
~ Ray Bradbury
C'était exactement ce qu'il désirait pour l'instant. Un signe que le vaste monde l'acceptait et lui offrait le temps nécéssaire pour réfléchir à tout ce qui exigeait reflexion.
~ Ray Bradbury