Wide Quotes
1556 Wide quotes by 1193 unique authors
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The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the…
— Christopher Fry
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Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle…
— Lee Smolin
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Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
— William Henry Ashley
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It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again…
— Marge Piercy
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Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
— Homer
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If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them.…
— Katharine Drexel
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Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is…
— Dogen
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the…
— George Eliot
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A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.
— Andrew Jackson Downing
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The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short…
— Robert Higgs
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The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
— Romare Bearden
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Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for…
— Jamsetji Tata
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If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right,…
— John Naisbitt
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They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal.…
— Bernard Rimland
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It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd…
— Julia Ormond
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five…
— Jonathan Swift
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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.…
— John Milton
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