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Quotes About Vast

Digital medium has a vaster reach, more than any other medium, as the content is watched globally in various countries at the same time.
~ Vikrant Massey
The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers... Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.
~ Frederick Buechner
Always it had been the same; leaders arose holding before men the illusion of vast, glorious promises while they carefully led them into hells of lost dreams and broken promises.
~ Fritz Leiber
A vast meaning is unfolded in each line, with such power that a sentence only a line long would suffice for a whole life's training.
~ Rufinus
Again the desert, unpeopled, limitless, empty to the horizon.
~ Ruth Gruber
If someone asks about the mind of this monk, say it is no more than a passage of wind in the vast sky.
~ Ry?kan
And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.
~ Margaret Atwood
There was a fear in the unknown which was too vast to find the strength to face. Everything precious and familiar was being engulfed in a spiritual void.
~ Anne Perry
We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless.
~ Anne Rice
In the living room, sectional couches lumbered through the vast space like a herd of rhinos, and both coffee tables were the size of double beds.
~ Anne Tyler
A life that seems small on the outside can be limitless on the inside.
~ John Jackson Miller
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas
~ John Maynard Keynes
now I know my capacity for awe is infinite: this thirst is permanent, the well bottomless, my good fortune vast.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
The pain was vast. He lay back, balling his fists against his eyes, and concentrated on breathing. His leg throbbed; the pain paled and ebbed while he outwaited it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
When the massive door swung open, though, and the puff of escaping air sailed them grandly into the crooked sunlight between the world's vast webworked cables, Rien forgot everything but the cold black fire-pricked vault of the universe stretching out forever, and the wheeling world that framed it on each side.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Even given my limited knowledge of the vast span of Terran history, terrible crimes seemed terribly commonplace and didn't usually lead to enlightenment.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Whatever moved in Kit was vast and slow, a symphony of emotion that swelled from discord into something complex and bittersweet and whole.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Goodlaw gave one of its enormous highly oxygenated sighs.
~ Elizabeth Bear
not entirely clear why this is so, but one theory has it that the uplift of the Himalayas exposed vast expanses of rock to chemical weathering, and this in turn led to a drawdown of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. At the start of this
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
please don't carry my love for you with you forever. but don't let that be all. our capacity to love is vast - all of us. my daughters taught me that. there is room.
~ Elizabeth Noble
The more I go to Australia, the more I realise how enormous the country is and how much there is to see. There's really nowhere like it.
~ Kate Garraway
For Baudelaire, man's poetic fate is to be the mirror of immensity; or even more exactly, immensity becomes conscious of itself, through man. Man for Baudelaire is a vast being.
~ Gaston Bachelard
And then I saw it—not below, where I had looked, but over my head, a vast and noble curve stretching away to either side, with white cloud flying between ourselves and it, a world all speckled over with blue and green like the egg of a wild bird.
~ Gene Wolfe