Wide Quotes
1556 Wide quotes by 1193 unique authors
-
Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
-
To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
-
The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
— Lincoln Steffens
-
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the…
— Eugene V. Debs
-
A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.
— George Barr McCutcheon
-
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify…
— Herbert Marcuse
-
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
— David Mamet
-
MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to…
— Richard Holbrooke
-
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers,…
— Petrarch
-
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in…
— Anaximander
-
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open.…
— Julius Nyerere
-
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became…
— L. Frank Baum
-
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document,…
— Paul Robeson
-
I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get…
— Anne McCaffrey
-
The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.
— Yasujiro Ozu
-
Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life.
— Unknown Author
-
Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget…
— Leslie Caron
-
Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
— Prince Charles
-
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered…
— Alfred de Vigny
-
Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a…
— Evan Davis
Who Wrote These Wide Quotes
1,193 authors contributed a total of 1,556 Wide Quotes, led by these top contributors: