#vast

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#book #bright #bubble #cathedral #contains

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#destroy #either #forces #heights #human

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. ↗

— John Fogerty

#because #break #get #i #kid

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#among #anything #convince #country #devastated

Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#brussels #budget #contributions #debate #deficit

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#devastated #i #i can #job #loss

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us. ↗

— John Hughes

#baby #because #boom #burning #change

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.' ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#choice #conscious #fellow #floating #made

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#coach #crushed #devastated #had #i