Vistas Quotes

• I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Distance, Taken

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Morning, Doors, Trying

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Wind, Serendipity

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

  Winston Churchill

  Possibility, Shortness Of Life, Shortness

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Long Walks, Climbing

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Fabric, Sometimes

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Mar 01, 2017

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• Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Vision, Safe, Realms

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

  Richard Blumenthal

  People, New Friendship, Networking

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• The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Book, Reading

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

  Edmund Burke

  Prejudice, Grove, Ends

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 115.

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• The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Lord, Tricks

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Mistake, Past, Opportunity

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• To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Opportunity, People, Expectations

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• Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mean, Environment, Share

  Thomas L. Friedman (2008). “Hot, flat, and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution, and how we can renew our global future”, Lane, Allen

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• The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Real, Space

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• I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  Malcolm X

  Education, Reading, Long

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.

  Julia Kristeva

  Memories, Thinking, Sky

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• The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which it has slowly been climbing,... is able to see there the way in which the bonds were made, the causes which set it in motion. It is able to see how many of those causes have worked themselves out and... how many... are still working themselves out.

  Annie Besant

  Karma, Past, Climbing

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• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Happiness, Success, Mind

  The Call of Cthulhu ch. 1 (1928)

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• Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is uninhibited by the thousands of considerations that always bedevil man in his progress. The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Our World, Optimism

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• [Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Science, Intellectual, Geology

  Rosa Luxemburg, Paul Le Blanc (1999). “Rosa Luxemburg: reflections and writings”

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