Quotes About Vast

They circle; now dense like a polished roof, now disseminated like the meshes of some vast all-heaven-sweeping net, now darkening, now flashing out a million rays of light . . . a madness in the sky

There are an infinite variety of secret connections and associations in the vast system of things," and no one can know what he or she might be able to do sometime in the unforeseeable future.

He watched the eternity of the sky. The dark was restful, but the vastness was cold and made you draw something close to you.

The whole of Paris was lit up. The tiny dancing flames had bespangled the sea of darkness from end to end of the horizon, and now, like millions of stars, they burned with a steady light in the serene summer night. There was no breath of wind to make them flicker as they hung there in space. They made the unseen city seem as vast as a firmament, reaching out into infinity.

your brain is wider than the sky

The Brain — is wider than the Sky —

Look! said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, Someone who cares!

The men who rush into undertakings of vast change usually feel they are in possession of some irresistible power. The generation that made the French Revolution had an extravagant conception of the omnipotence of man's reason and the boundless range of his intelligence.

The despair brought by unemployment comes not only from the threat of destitution, but from the sudden view of a vast nothingness ahead. The unemployed are more likely to follow the peddlers of hope than the handers-out of relief.

and his warm flannel pajamas and the vast, white, icy, aching loneliness waiting in the void left by his shattered heart.

Beyond Earth are vast and magnificent realms full of objects that have no counterpart on our home planet. Nevertheless, we hope to show you that the evolution of the universe has been directly responsible for your presence on Earth today.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

There's something about Australia that feels prehistoric.

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

First, forget politics as you've come to see it as electoral contests between Democrats and Republicans. Think power. The underlying contest is between a small minority who have gained power over the system and the vast majority who have little or none.

sky, and fleecy white clouds billowed across it.

They had been unable to move that vast placid mass of citizens, the ones who were satisfied with the government, whatever sort of government it might happen to be, the ones who feared rocking the boat more than they feared being devoured by the boat.

as old as seas and mountains. . . .

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing...

Kansas City Sunday, August 22, 1915 The country is flat and I can see as far as my eyes will let me.

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.