Chasms Quotes

• The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

  Nelson Mandela

  Healing, Bridges, Moments

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 23, 2016

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• Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Bridges

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing more dangerous than security.

  Francis Walsingham

  Historical, Danger, Closed Minded

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• The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

  T. D. Jakes

  Purpose, World, Danger

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• How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Heaven, Hell

  Johnny Cash (1975). “MAN IN BLACK”

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• The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spring, Humanity, Mountain

  Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Du ntzer, Percy Pinkerton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1902). “The Maid of Oreleans; The Bride of Messina; Wilhelm Tell; Demetrius; The Piccolomini; The Death of Wallenstein; Wallenstein's Camp”

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• Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Magic, Doubt

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• Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Animal, Soul, Suffering

  Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.85, New World Library

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• Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Jennifer Beals

  Love Is, World, Danger

  PlanetOut Inc. Interview, 2004.

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• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Passion, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

  Alan Moore

  Heart, Doe, Humans

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ocean, Sea, Pouring

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Creativity, Expression

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  Karl Liebknecht

  Country, War, Long

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• Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Motivational, Courage, Two

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• Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Remember, Injury

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.319

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• The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, Strategy, Dangerous

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• This is my prayer for all of us — 'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Bridges, Giving

  "Lord, Increase Our Faith". Ensign magazine, pp. 52-53, November 1987.

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• A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Divergent, Lines

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spiritual, Engineering, Riches

  Lionel Crocker, Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “Harry Emerson Fosdick's art of preaching: an anthology”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

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• There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Dangerous, Leap

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Courage, Pure, Consequence

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• One does not simply walk into Mordor.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Doe, Fellowship

  "Fictional character: Boromir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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