Horizon Quotes
In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.
It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.
There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable.
Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.
If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.
An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.
Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.
The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.
The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.
If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.
When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.
The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?
I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.
I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.
Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.
That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.
it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.
They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.
the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!
Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
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.
Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.
I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls.
The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.
Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.