Expanse Quotes - Page 3

• Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

  David Levithan

  Knowing, Space, Impossible

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.114, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!

  Susanna Clarke

  Light, Scotland, Rose

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

  Brian Greene

  Creating, Bangs, May

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Dark, Night, Knives

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Lonely, Children

  5 Copy quote

• I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

  Bede Griffiths

  Running, Flower, Fall

  35 Copy quote

• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baroness Orczy

  Heart, Sadness, Gay

  44 Copy quote

• Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Strong, Light, Wind

  5 Copy quote

• In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Wall, Fall

  11 Copy quote

• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

  6 Copy quote

• So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Loss, Excited, Moments

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.100, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

  Harry S. Truman

  Land, Presidential, Mind

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

  Teju Cole

  Fall, Past, Space

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.172, Random House

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  Abbie Cornish

  Stars, Growing Up, Night

  7 Copy quote

• Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

  John Scott Russell

  Science, Astronomy, Infinite

  12 Copy quote

• We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today.

  Carolyn Porco

  Moon, World, Territory

  "Space probe sees Xanadu on Saturn moon" by Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2004.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne, Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

  John Keats

  Eye, Men, Islands

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 5 (1817)

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Spiritual, Fall, Evil

  103 Copy quote

• They were standing in a very large room. The floorboards stretched in a pale expanse at their feet. There was so much dust on the floor that it had a pearly sheen. ”Even you could not nap on this floor,” Kami told Angela. ”I don’t know, a dust mattress might be very comfortable,” said Angela. ”Also possibly orthopedic.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Naps, Dust, Feet

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

  James F. Cooper

  Ocean, Novices, Indifference

  11 Copy quote

• At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Fate, Should Have

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

  Ivan Doig

  World, Voyages, Lasts

  Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.

  Vladimir Bartol

  Stars, Wall, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

  Baroness Orczy

  Gay, Water, Rolling

  Baroness Orczy (2013). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.151, House of Stratus

  8 Copy quote

  Show source