Wide Quotes - Page 3

• [After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

  Nancy Astor

  Men, Doors, Europe

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• Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Believe, Opportunity, Yards

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• You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

  Homer

  Song, War, Men

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• Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Names, Miracle, Needs

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• True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wise, Memories, Spring

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.2

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• One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don't want to go to Hell. That would be an ignoble, ignominious reason for being good, and I think that if anybody was good to you just because they hoped for a heavenly reward, you wouldn't respect them, you'd probably give them a wide berth.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Giving, Heaven

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• I keep my eyes wide open. Because trouble is out there.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Eye, Nfl, Trouble

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• travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

  Peg Bracken

  Coffee, Home, Drunk

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

  Homer

  Men, Half, Slavery

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• The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

  Isaac Watts

  Children, Believe, Evil

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• Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

  John Milton

  Eye, Rivers, Clouds

  c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69-76.

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• In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Stupidity, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.286

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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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• Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

  Joseph Addison

  Circles, Religion, Enough

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.60

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• No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Feet, Moats

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• You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position you can find ways to make your car very wide!

  Romain Grosjean

  Fighting, Race, Car

  "Indian GP: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - Q&A". Interview with Matt Salisbury, www.crash.net. October 19, 2013.

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• The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Children, Years, Interesting

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• The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.344, Pan Macmillan

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• Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Numbers, Risk, Age

  "Geneticist Cynthia Kenyon is heading to Google" by Stephanie M. Lee, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2014.

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• We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Communication, Space

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• In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist

  Tom Metzger

  Anarchist

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• Hail the day that sees Him rise,
  Ravished from our wistful eyes!
  Christ, awhile to mortals given,
  Re-ascends His native heaven.
  There the glorious triumph waits,
  Lift your heads, eternal gates!
  Wide unfold the radiant scene,
  Take the King of glory in!

  Charles Wesley

  Kings, Eye, Waiting

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• There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.

  William Matthews

  Character, Men, Differences

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• To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Sadness, Mind

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• These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.

  Nate Burleson

  Play, Nfl, Super Bowl

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