Expansion Quotes - Page 2

• Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

  Bob Hayes

  Soul, World, Awareness

  9 Copy quote

• The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Years, Political, Upheaval

  8 Copy quote

• Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Intelligent, Men, Doubt

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.14

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Polly Toynbee

  Faith, School, Government

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

  Roger Wicker

  Marriage, Children, Cutting

  8 Copy quote

• Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

  Earl Browder

  Political, Growth, Way

  8 Copy quote

• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Pregnancy, Desire, States

  8 Copy quote

• Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

  Arthur Erickson

  Rome, World, Today

  11 Copy quote

• One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Mind, Bears, Eating

  43 Copy quote

• I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

  Tony Oliva

  Jobs, Thinking, Games

  8 Copy quote

• But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Dream, Hero

  9 Copy quote

• Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Past, Years

  8 Copy quote

• I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Military, Believe, Mean

  13 Copy quote

• Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Rights, Aggravation, Office

  8 Copy quote

• The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

  George Pataki

  Giving, Smoking, Effort

  8 Copy quote

• But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

  Everett Dirksen

  Wish, Alarms, Embrace

  13 Copy quote

• After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

  Russ Carnahan

  America, Design, Memorial

  Russ Carnahan's remarks at the United States House of Representatives (October 28, 2005), as quoted in "Congressional Record, Volume 151 - Part 18: October 27, 2005 to November 7, 2005 (Pages 23969 to 25296)" by Government Printing Office (p. 24193), 2010.

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Islamic, Mean

  9 Copy quote

• Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

  Geraldo Rivera

  Reality, Israel, Population

  23 Copy quote

• The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Taken, Past, Welfare Programs

  64 Copy quote

• Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

  John Donne

  Two, Soul, Gold

  c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

  Karl Kraus

  Media, Achievement, Desire

  9 Copy quote

• Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

  Robert Toombs

  Equality, Giving, Prosperity

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Usa, America

  "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947

  103 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Thinking, Reflection, Ideas

  10 Copy quote