Receding Horizon Quotes

#1. A flip dark chill winter bastard though dry

Anthony Burgess

#2. In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Did you ever try to pray for somebody? That their lives might be changed?

Edgar Cayce

#4. Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame.

Terrence Real

#5. It was not very long before he discovered; but that belongs to the next chapter and the beginning of another adventure in which the hobbit again showed his usefulness.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. There are many ways to serve.

Caroline Kennedy

#7. The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

Sara Paretsky

#8. A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#9. Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

John Fahey

#10. Eleanor had bargained for their wedding present, the dragon-spouted teapot worth thousands and the cups to match, gold-leafed, scaly.

Kate Walbert

#11. As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same for all of His children.

Quentin L. Cook

#12. The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#13. The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER

John C. Maxwell

#14. O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate,
you can not thwart
the promptings of my soul.

Hilda Doolittle

#15. Frank had decided that whatever his fate was, he wouldn't worry about it. He would just do the best he could to help his friends.

Rick Riordan

#16. That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.

Fernando Pessoa

#17. Even though there is something out there that is not the world-for-us, and even though we can name it the world-in-itself, this latter constitutes a horizon for thought, always receding just beyond the bounds of intelligibility.

Eugene Thacker