Broads Quotes - Page 35

• Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Humor, Views

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.277, Delphi Classics

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• While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Impact, Europe, Asia

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air.... It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.... Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  Salman Rushdie

  Sibling, Moving, Air

  "Everybody needs to get thicker skins" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2008.

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• Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Worry, Finding Yourself, Hazards

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.40, Multnomah

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• A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Hands, Understanding, Guardian

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also different styles and genres. And so, all of these things have influenced me along the way and I take a little bit from everything I do. I've been lucky to work with a lot of great people and learn from them.

  Steven Price

  People, Style, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always wanted my offering to have broad appeal and work for a diverse range of women with different lifestyles.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Offering, Different, Lifestyle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.

  Maya Harris

  Issues, People, Dimensions

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Elude You, Laughing, Small Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Years, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it.

  Richie Ashburn

  Kids, Drink, Curse

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• During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Green Fields, Sky

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.9, Om Books International

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• The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.

  Huineng

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

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• I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Mean, Men

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• There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

  David Rakoff

  Optimistic, Thinking, Optimism

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• The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

  Paul Giamatti

  Comedy, Film, Hard

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• At the end of the day, I think that music lovers are going to love me. I think the pop songs that are on my album will be loved by the pop listeners and the R&B songs will be loved by the R&B people. I think that each song has a broad enough sound that I won't be pigeon holed. At the same time I think it is appealing to many different audiences.

  Chrisette Michele

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Chrisette Michele: Unifying Music". Singersroom Interview, singersroom.com. June 18, 2007.

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• The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

  Robert Grudin

  Epic, Tragedy, Dinner

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952).

  Joaquin Fuster

  Memories, Men, Profound

  "Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate". Book by Joaquin M. Fuster, 1995.

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• I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Intellectual

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.221, Graphic Arts Books

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• We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

  Robert Breault

  Envy, Details, Outlines

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• I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

  Elmore Leonard

  Boat, Dough, Booze

  Elmore Leonard (2009). “Labrava: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Sunshine, Dawn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.106, Wildside Press LLC

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• Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

  George Carlin

  Paint, Brushes, Rhetoric

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• Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

  James Fallows

  Fate, People, Society

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