Vast Quotes

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure. (George Carlin)
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. View quote
John Updike
History is a vast early warning system. View quote
Norman Cousins
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. View quote
William Cobbett
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. View quote
G. M. Trevelyan
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. View quote
Thornton Wilder
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. View quote
Denis Diderot
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. View quote
Lewis Mumford
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. View quote
Charles Dickens
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
How vast a memory has Love. View quote
Alexander Pope
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. View quote
Boris Johnson
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual. View quote
Norman Mailer
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity... Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. View quote
Emil Cioran