Wide Quotes - Page 13

• What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

  Empedocles

  Light, Air, Sky

  43 Copy quote

• A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how to care inways appropriate to her age, her desires, and her needs; she then acts with authenticity. She must be allowed the freedom not to care; she then has access to a wide range of feelings and is able to care more fully.

  Jeanne Elium

  Girl, Responsibility, Feelings

  6 Copy quote

• I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.

  Jan Clausen

  Book, Thinking, Order

  Jan Clausen (1989). “Books & Life”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.

  Janet Gonzalez-Mena

  Mean, Feelings, Emotion

  14 Copy quote

• Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently.

  Danny Glover

  Fun, Kids, Dark

  8 Copy quote

• Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Egypt, Color

  4 Copy quote

• My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Effort, Losing

  4 Copy quote

• It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Men, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1621, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.

  Gina Barreca

  Holiday, Kids, Breathing

  4 Copy quote

• A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

  Anna Brackett

  Book, Simple, Two

  6 Copy quote

• The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

  Laozi

  Missing, Heaven, Mesh

  13 Copy quote

• By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Home, Equal Pay

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

  B. C. Forbes

  Sleep, Men, Watches

  4 Copy quote

• People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.

  Eugene Fama

  People, Would Be, Lucky

  "A Father of Modern Finance" by Rebecca Rolfes, www.chicagobooth.edu. 2013.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Knowing, Long, Risk

  28 Copy quote

• Like a community sing, a howl is a happy occasion. Wolves love to howl. When it is started, they instantly seek contact with one another, troop together, fur to fur. Some wolves will run from any distance, panting and bright-eyed, to join in, uttering, as they near, fervent little wows, jaws wide, hardly able to wait to sing.

  Lois Crisler

  Running, Distance, Waiting

  4 Copy quote

• Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Analysis, Looks, Levels

  James Joseph Sylvester (2005). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.150, American Mathematical Soc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Friendship, Appreciation, Heart

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Flower, Mean

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Party, Doubt, Earth

  4 Copy quote

• Every thought is public,
  Every nook is wide;
  Thy gossips spread each whisper,
  And the gods from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Sides, Spread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.291

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

  William Warburton

  Lying, Wings, Legs

  5 Copy quote

• If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Choices, World, May

  8 Copy quote

• True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

  Max Beerbohm

  Fashion, Body, Limits

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.129, New York Review of Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

  Alan Hirsch

  Grace, Truth Is

  4 Copy quote