The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions – but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was devastating to Louisiana’s economy, environment, and way of life, but because of the resiliency of our people, we were determined to come back stronger than ever.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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.
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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.
We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what’s on the other side of it. That’s in our nature. What’s also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.
When you go to the park, there is no horizon – just Disneyland.
It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.
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.
The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It’s to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
No politician has a 50-year horizon.
I’ve been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.
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.
