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Quotes About Vast

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
~ Robert Dale Owen
The planet is a vast and beautiful place, full of exciting and wonderful people.
~ Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
The vast majority of Trump supporters are wonderful people and I have very nice interactions with them.
~ Jim Acosta
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
~ Saint Augustine
Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.
~ Samuel Beckett
SAMUEL DELANY'S DHALGREN IS a prose-city, a labyrinth, a vast construct the reader learns to enter by any one of a multiplicity of doors.
~ Samuel R. Delany
And what if all of animated natureBe but organic harps diversely fram'd,That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweepsPlastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,At once the Soul of each, and God of All?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sun never sets there [Siberia] - one end wakes up when the other is going to sleep. In parts it is so cold that living trees explode with a sound like gunfire...
~ Sara Wheeler
And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
~ Andrew Marvell
The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.
~ Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.
~ Rand Paul
Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni línea. Hay vastos pasajes donde se insinúa que alguien hubo. No es cierto, no hubo nadie.
~ Marguerite Duras
Every new increase in the vast imperial organism seemed to me an unsound growth, like a cancer or dropsical edema which would eventually cause our death.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
We take fortuitous resemblences among us to be actual likeness, because those around us have also fallen heir to the same customs, trade in the same coin, acknowledge, more or less, the same notions of decency and sanity. But all that really just allows us to coexist with the inviolable, untraversable, and utterly vast spaces between us.
~ Marilynne Robinson
We take fortuitous resemblances among us to be actual likeness, because those around us have also fallen heir to the same customs, trade in the same coin, acknowledge, more or less, the same notions of decency and sanity. But all that really just allows us to coexist with the inviolable, untraversable, and utterly vast spaces between us.
~ Marilynne Robinson
We still talk in terms of conquest," she observed. "We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe." Without hesitating, she delivered her final blow: "I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.
~ Mark Hamilton Lytle
How can one fade out in peace, carrying vast ignorance into a state of total ignorance?
~ Anthony Burgess
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.
~ Isaac Marion, Boarded Window
But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.
~ John Piper
Indeed, what could be more ludicrous in a vast and glorious universe like this than a human being, on the speck called earth, standing in front of a mirror trying to find significance in his own self-image?
~ John Piper
Reasonably speaking, the universe is practically infinite.
~ John Walker
vast expanse of modern gray driftwood flooring—the kind favored by Californians and the decorators of cancer centers.
~ Ellen Meister
The sky is an enormous man.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg