Quotes of Vast - somelinesforyou

“ God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ”

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“ O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade; Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. ”

- William Cowper

“ The brain is wider than the sky. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. ”

- George Eliot

“ Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. ”

- Cullen Hightower

“ Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me. ”

- Lea DeLaria

“ Beware the toils of war... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world. ”

- Homer

“ We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. ”

- Carl von Clausewitz

“ The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again. ”

- David Steinberg

“ I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. ”

- Carl Jung

“ I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it. ”

- Ben Lindsey

“ The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang… ”

- Bill Bryson

“ Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ”

- Stephen Jay Gould

“ The crux… is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. ”

- William J. Broad

“ Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. ”

- James Ramsey

“ The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. ”

- Gifford Pinchot

“ Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost? ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. ”

- Murray Edelman

“ America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. ”

- John Updike

“ There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. ”

- Dirk Struik
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