Wide Quotes - Page 16

• Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

  Elizabeth Price Foley

  Home, Garden, Land

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• With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists.

  John Ankerberg

  Religious, Buddhist, Atheist

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• Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Christian, Rome, Community

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• It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fellow who looked as though he knew where he was going, but just to go.

  Jo Baker

  Ocean, Men, Spain

  Jo Baker (2013). “Longbourn”, p.163, Random House

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• Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Reality, World

  George Gordon Byron, “The Dream”

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• There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Bridges, Choices, Age

  "Dubai ruler in vast charity gift" By Jon Leyne, news.bbc.co.uk. May 19, 2007.

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• I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Men, Dwarves

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• There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  Cato the Elder

  Differences, Contempt, True Courage

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• The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Opportunity, Swings

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• Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?

  Miranda July

  Character, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• A property is that which not at all
  Can be disjoined and severed from a thing
  Without a fatal dissolution: such,
  Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow
  To the wide waters, touch to corporal things,
  Intangibility to the viewless void.

  Lucretius

  Fire, Rocks, Water

  Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

  Frank Herbert

  Cutting, Lines, Problem

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.

  Greta Christina

  Children, School, Organization

  "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?". Article by Greta Christina, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2010.

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• Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Men, Cities, Space

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• What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

  Mauricio Pochettino

  Team, Player, Messi

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• You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Mom, Dog, Laughing

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.11, SCB Distributors

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• For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

  Attila the Hun

  Cities, Earth, Empires

  "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Book by Edward Gibbon, Vol. III, chapter 34, 1781.

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• Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is
  innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk,
  talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends,
  even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or
  remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written
  language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and
  skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to
  have evolved.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Reading, School

  "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature". Book by Steven Pinker, 2002.

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• Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don't send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you're wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime.

  Amy Webb

  Sweet, Sleep, Two

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• The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

  Rumi

  Sky, Soul, Listening

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• There's an overlap of people we've used from previous films and we also like to obviously bring in new people so we get a fresh voice and opinion when you bring them in. All different ages and genders and everything, you just want a wide spectrum of people who are coming in to see what works.

  Bryan Burk

  Voice, People, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

  Saschka Unseld

  New York, Sea, Cities

  Source: collider.com

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• It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Football, Fun, Able

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• I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team.

  Hines Ward

  Jobs, Team, Blue

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• I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

  Hines Ward

  Football, Player, Thinking

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