Haile Selassie
Emperor
"Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon."
Horizon quotes
Horizon
240 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing."
Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"Your greatness is measured by your horizons."
Louise Hay
Author, Motivational Speaker
"When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand."
Clint Eastwood
Actor, Director, Producer
"Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind."
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"Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see."
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"Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon."
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"Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows."
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"I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."
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"Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time."
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"And the meek shall inherit the earth."
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"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."
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"The health of the eye demands a horizon."
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"It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon."
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"Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons."
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"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."
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"In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave."
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"Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon."
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"For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from."
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"Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith."
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"Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises."
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"It is the eye which makes the horizon."
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"There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time."
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"At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken."
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"There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years."
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