Broad Quotes
702 quotes by 576 authors
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Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy
— Zhuangzi
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Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.
— George Carlin
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
— James Fallows
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...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his…
— Albert Einstein
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... the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity; and this dark…
— Charles Kingsley
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Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
— Herb Caen
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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not…
— Paul Hawken
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Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not…
— Sean O'Casey
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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one…
— Voltaire
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It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can…
— Ridley Pearson
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I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as…
— Michael Rapaport
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When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would…
— Brian Sandoval
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Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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576 authors contributed a total of 702 Broad Quotes, led by these top contributors: