Horizon Quotes

I am a Cartesian clear and distinct object on this pyramidal peak of the mountain, where the echoes trail off almost forever the horizon.

~ Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

Since its sudden birth the city had expanded, swallowing up acre upon acre of the surrounding grasslands and drawing thousands into its domain. Hardly built on the most advantageous ground, miles from the open waters, decades from the mines at the mountain summits, it yet remained the only settlement of note on the isle. This sprawling mass of a city, once a compact kingdom, was now the keystone of the Castilian Empire.

~ R.d. Shanks

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

~ Howard Thurman

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

~ Eugene Cernan

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

~ Georges Duhamel

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

~ James Russell Lowell

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

~ Henry Miller

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.

~ Henri Nouwen

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

~ Will Self

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

~ Karl Marx

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

~ Jose Andres

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.

~ Milla Jovovich