Wider Quotes

337 Wider quotes by 292 unique authors

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. — Emily Dickinson
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the… — Anne Tyler
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive:… — Christopher Morley
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker… — Unknown Author
When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to… — Zora Neale Hurston
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and… — Cornelia Funke
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? — Victor Hugo
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal… — Richard Louv
Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value… — Karen Marie Moning
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.… — Annie Dillard
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all… — Haruki Murakami
The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee;… — Annie Dillard
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the… — Sarah Waters
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world… — Alain de Botton
Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to… — Tom Robbins
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact… — Bell Hooks
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While… — Yukio Mishima
Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was… — Kate DiCamillo
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world… — Charles Darwin
The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease… — Emily Dickinson
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.… — Oscar Wilde
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my… — Leon Trotsky
I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable… — Laurell K. Hamilton
A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the… — Warren W. Wiersbe

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