Wide Quotes

1556 Wide quotes by 1193 unique authors

The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read… — Karen Marie Moning
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing… — J R Ward
Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide… — Mark Z. Danielewski
The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was… — Margaret Weis
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide… — W. Somerset Maugham
I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest.” The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, “Yeah. I… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. — Barbara Tuchman
Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm… — Sarah Dessen
That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian… — Rhonda Byrne
wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation! — Eric Jerome Dickey
Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd… — James Patterson
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never… — Toni Morrison
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and… — Jonathan Lethem
Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V — William Shakespeare
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take… — Deb Caletti
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on… — Virginia Woolf
Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than… — Darcey Steinke
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed… — George Eliot

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