Horizon Quotes - Page 28

• In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

  Vaclav Havel

  Effort, Quota, Strive

  Vaclav Havel (2009). “To the Castle and Back”, p.285, Vintage

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• Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fall, Blue, Sky

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.238, A&C Black

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• I'll find you, Will!" Then the wind filled the big, square sail of the wolfship and she heeled away from the shore, moving faster and faster towards the northeast. For a long time after she'd dropped below the horizon, the sodden figure sat there, his horse chest-deep in the rolling waves, staring after the ship. And his lips still moved, in a silent promis only he could hear.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Moving, Squares

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• In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Country, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.378

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• The reality was that while they might have eternity, there was violence on the horizon. And in the present. She wasn't intending on ignoring it. She couldn't. But she wasn't going to ignore them either. Just kiss me, ---.” A look of hesitation crossed his face, but he didn't push her away. He swept her legs from under her and lifted her into his arms. " -Darkest Mercy (p 28)

  Melissa Marr

  Kissing, Reality, Looks

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• Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Girlfriend, Fear, Knees

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• In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

  Albert Camus

  Stars, Night, Dry

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Sucker, Wide

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Anyone But You”, p.71, HQN Books

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• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Destiny, Men, Deep Water

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  Alfred Delp

  Song, Reality, Self

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• The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Soul, Body

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• Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

  John Dewey

  Spring, War, Class

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Doubt, Emotion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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• Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mind, Want, Infinity

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• If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Lying, Civilization

  Gary Snyder, Tom Killion, John Muir (2002). “The High Sierra of California”

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• I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

  Charley Pride

  Summer, Rain, Spectacular

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Hands

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• The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distant hill. It comes nearer--that promise of the day. The clouds roll rapidly away, and they are fringed with amber and gold. It is, it is the blest sunlight that I feel around me--Morning! It is morning!

  William Morley Punshon

  Morning, Clouds, Darkness

  William Morley Punshon (1857). “John Bunyan, a lecture”, p.50

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• Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point.

  Robert A. Lovett

  Eye, Drawing, Perspective

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• I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Race, Space

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all.
  The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed.
  I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones.
  The broken carrot noses.

  Craig Stone

  Knowing, Sky, Broken

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• We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Fighting, Fire, Blood

  Wall Street Journal, November 14, 1969.

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• The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  World, This World, Wanted

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• Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creative, Healthy, Unity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.130, Friedrich Nietzsche

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