You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?" Came the inquiry." Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?"" It is called Karakal""I don't think I've ever heard of it. Is is very high?"" Over twenty-eight thousand feet."" Indeed? I didn't realize there would be anything on that scale outside the Himalayas. Has it been properly surveyed? Whose are the measurements?"" Whose would you expect, my dear sir? Is there anything incompatible between monasticism and trigonometry? . James Hilton
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
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Amit Ray
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
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Nayyirah Waheed
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Horace Walpole
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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Criss Jami
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
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Carl Sagan
More Quotes By James Hilton
People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds–even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.
The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought of it as he contemplated the small orderliness of the...
For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with horror. He was a quiet, conventional...
Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue-black sky.
