Wide Quotes
1556 Wide quotes by 1193 unique authors
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Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage…
— Steve Kroft
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I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.
— Bill Nighy
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Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.
— Friedrich Schiller
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to…
— John Henry Newman
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My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I…
— William Shakespeare
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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did…
— Plato
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Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
— Orison Swett Marden
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Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
— William Cowper
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I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which…
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
— Alexander Pope
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I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled…
— Orrin Hatch
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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
— William Stafford
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One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that…
— Eli Siegel
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Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately…
— Hakuin Ekaku
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Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall,…
— Sidney Lanier
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open…
— Dorothea Lange
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The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide…
— Bryan Procter
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Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.
— Mary Abigail Dodge
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Though, I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond the seven seas. Go wherever you will, over the wide world, I am…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a…
— Robert Motherwell
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In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining,…
— John Churton Collins
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How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this…
— Augustus William Hare
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave…
— Han Suyin
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