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Horizon Quotes

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

– Henry Kissinger

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

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

– Hal Borland

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

When you look at the Earth’s horizon and see the thickness of the atmosphere, it’s not even the thickness of an orange peel.

– Gregory H. Johnson

When you go to the park, there is no horizon – just Disneyland.

– John Hench

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

– John Berger

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we’re going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years – the last 50 years really – has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

– J. Michael Straczynski

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

– John Maeda

In the 1960s and into the ’70s, everyone in their own way was trying to open up the musical horizon. There shouldn’t be a wall that you’re going toward and bouncing off.

– Jimmy Page

If you’re afraid of inflation, I think – and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon – and when I say long, I mean ten to 20 years, not the usual ten to 20 weeks – that locking up resources in the ground is a terrific idea.

– Jeremy Grantham

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

– Jose Andres

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon.

– Jack Nicklaus

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.

– James Randi

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

– James Russell Lowell

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.

– Allen Tate

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth’s Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

– Ban Ki-moon

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred – it is the amphetamine of its believers.

– Arianna Huffington

I once gave a talk at a girls’ school and, once I’d finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that’s where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it’s one of the things on their horizon.

– Beeban Kidron

Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.

– Charles Lindbergh

A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.

– Barry Ritholtz

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But… all the time I’m watching the country music horizon. And I’m sayin’ ‘Lord, is there anybody gonna come?’

– Buck Owens

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

– Al Gore

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

– Adrienne Clarkson

My to-do list is so long that it doesn’t have an end; it has an event horizon.

– Craig Bruce

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

– Elizabeth Gaskell

Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to from one to several months for macro variables. We have to provide uncertainty intervals around the central forecasts to indicate the extent to which we are unclear about the future.

– Clive Granger

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

– George Sand

My wife, Dixie, is evangelical Christian. We met in the Reagan White House, when she was a student intern. We’re members of the Horizon Christian Fellowship Church.

– Dinesh D’Souza

There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.

– P. J. O’Rourke

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