Widening Quotes
88 Widening quotes by 71 unique authors
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Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of…
— James Wolcott
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts…
— Albert Einstein
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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose…
— Anne Rice
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon…
— William Butler Yeats
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Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
— Unknown Author
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For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to…
— Helen Keller
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Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and…
— Winston Churchill
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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so…
— E. M. Forster
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our…
— Amy Lowell
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part…
— George Eliot
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The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
— Lisa Unger
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He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.
— Terry Pratchett
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
— Anais Nin
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
— Sylvia Plath
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I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The demon's eyes flicked to mine, his smile widening. "This is Nicholas Gregory Sparagmos's room," he said, and my breath caught. "Delightful, just delightful! What…
— Kim Harrison
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He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe…
— Mira Grant
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The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as…
— Steven Pinker
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Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world…
— Leonardo Boff
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The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer,…
— Lucy Stone
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There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be…
— Martin Rees
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There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Who Wrote These Widening Quotes
71 authors contributed a total of 88 Widening Quotes, led by these top contributors: