Immense Quotes - Page 9

• How immense the high sky is!

  Nguyen Du

  Sky, Infinity

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• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Reflection, Years, Training

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• It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.

  Criss Jami

  Dream, Lying, Passion

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.85, Criss Jami

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• Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Knowledge, Science, Our World

  "Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology". Book by Mark Brake, 2012.

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• We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Mean, Patriotism, World

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• The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

  David Cronenberg

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

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• Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

  Walter Sickert

  Passion, Thinking, Misunderstood

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Real, Book

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• It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

  Charles Darwin

  Chance, Impossible, Wonderful

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• Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

  Teresa of Avila

  Magnificence, Palaces, Remember

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press

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• People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Ambition, Order

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• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Opportunity, Practice

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• God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

  Hafez

  God, Fire, Together

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• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Always Trying, Literature, World

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• Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with heroes like those of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Man will continue his conquest of space. To reach out for new goals and ever-greater achievements, that is the way we shall commemorate our seven Challenger heroes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Blessed, Character

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• What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Biographies, Knows

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.

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• Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!

  Lucretius

  Science, Past, Infinite Time

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Money, Children, Parent

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.97, Broadway Books

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• It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.

  Octavio Paz

  Delight, Revolution, Quick Death

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.148, Grove Press

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• What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Voice, Dresses, Looks

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• Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Race, Ideas

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 393, 1955.

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