Horizon Quotes - Page 31

• You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.

  Chris Murray

  Moving, Opportunity, Views

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• Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

  R. D. Laing

  Mad, Steps, Common

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• The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

  Charles Wagner

  Men, Views, Justice

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Sky, Long

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.365, Best Books on

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• When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Darkness, Shepherds

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• When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know.... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone.

  R. D. Laing

  Communication, Writing, Hands

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• I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, She is gone. Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, She is gone, there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, Here she comes! That is dying.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Morning, Ocean, Loss

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• My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Past, Order, Would Be

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.404, Psychology Press

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• I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many of us crawl along in life without even a glimpse of our hidden passion. There has to be a reason for living. There must be a Camelot, a hidden Utopia where we can rest from our personal campaigns. Fantasy opens our eyes to a better place, a shining city we do not yet know. And these stories provide a mental bridge to that city as we pursue horizons we could never distinguish with our physical eyes.

  Bryan Davis

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

  Emily Dickinson

  Loss, Quality, Sound

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.613, Harvard University Press

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• Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

  James Fisher

  Leadership, People, Special

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• A Light exists in Spring
  Not present on the Year
  At any other period -
  When March is scarcely here
  A Color stands abroad
  On Solitary Fields
  That Science cannot overtake
  But Human Nature feels.
  
  It waits upon the Lawn,
  It shows the furthest Tree
  Upon the furthest Slope you know
  It almost speaks to you.
  
  Then as Horizons step
  Or Noons report away
  Without the Formula of sound
  It passes and we stay -
  
  A quality of loss
  Affecting our Content
  As Trade had suddenly encroached
  Upon a Sacrament.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Loss, Color

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1084, Delphi Classics

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• Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

  Wallace Stegner

  Teacher, Fall, Sight

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• When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Stars, Ego

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• A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Summer, Night, Knowing

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• When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Awareness

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• You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Book, Inspiration

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• Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

  Mu Xin

  Art, Distance, Ideas

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• I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Our World, Discovery, Support

  "National Science Foundation funded climate change musical to tune of $700,000" by Perry Chiaramonte, www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have yourself to bring to your work. You are your palette, so give yourself as many colors as possible to paint with.

  Gideon Glick

  Reading, Play, Color

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Self, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

  Jack Johnson

  Future, Pirate, Age

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Home, Humanity, World

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Sunset, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Hanging of the Crane”, p.43

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• The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Running, Distance, Mean

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