Broads Quotes

• Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground

  Noah Webster

  Ties, Long, Joy

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• Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

  Andrew Johnson

  Government, Giving, Political

  Andrew Johnson, Paul H. Bergeron (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867”, p.86, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Groups, Reckless

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.589, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

  Eileen Atkins

  Hands, People, Mind

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Book, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

  Pierre Pettigrew

  Important, India, Intense

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• Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

  Paul Samuelson

  Government, Two, Democracy

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• The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

  Eisaku Sato

  Japan, People, Desire

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• I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.

  Julia Roberts

  Girl, Chicks, Tall

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• Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

  Oliver Lodge

  Prejudice, Impossible, Invincible

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “Past Years: An Autobiography”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

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• Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

  Douglas Coupland

  Prayer, Goal, Enough

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• Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

  Jean Paul

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Time

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• The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

  Edward H. Levi

  Unity, Mind, Alive

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Tolerance, Matter, Ethics

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.159, tredition

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• In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

  Kevin Kelly

  Environment, Organisms

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• Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Strong, Clever

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1067, Delphi Classics

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• When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

  Joe Namath

  New York, Stress, League

  "Ladies love Teflon Tom -- no matter what" by Jemele Hill, www.espn.com. January 31, 2008.

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• I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

  Ajay Naidu

  Theatre, Definitions, Paint

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

  Maria Mitchell

  Soul, World, Humans

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  Emanuel Celler

  Travel, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Thinking, Mountain, Kind

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• Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Intellectual, Mit, Development

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• I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

  Andrew Wiles

  Thinking, Understanding, Problem

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

  Mike DeWine

  Judging, Temptation, Needs

  Mike DeWine at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Hearing on The Nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of The Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2005.

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