Wide Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

  John Milton

  Air, Quarry, Grim

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.262

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• There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

  Mark Durie

  Religious, Colonialism, World

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never seen as one particular thing, or that's who you'll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.

  Amanda Schull

  Character, Bridges, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Mean, Kids, Suffering

  Source: collider.com

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• An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Should Have, Perfection, Quality

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• I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Sky, Pioneers, Boots

  Stephen Vincent Benet, “The Ballad Of WILLIam Sycamore [1790-1871]”

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• Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Football, Play, Skills

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

  Rumi

  Sky, Soul, Listening

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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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• But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made
  Completely solid, hither and thither fly
  Forevermore unconquered through all time,
  Now come, and whether to the sum of them
  There be a limit or be none, for thee
  Let us unfold; likewise what has been found
  To be the wide inane, or room, or space
  Wherein all things soever do go on,
  Let us examine if it finite be
  All and entire, or reach unmeasured round
  And downward an illimitable profound.

  Lucretius

  Space, Profound, Goes On

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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• In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a dream," to be corny about it. It's implied with eyes wide open, rather than asleep. But I'm not a philosopher to explain myself. I wish I could. Maybe that's why I'm a musician.

  Tom Verlaine

  Dream, Eye, Wish

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• Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

  Marge Piercy

  Doors, Hands, Rooms

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.55, Knopf

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• I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Baby, Blood, Voice

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• Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Attitude, Crazy

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• People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.

  Liu Wen

  Beautiful, Eye, People

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• For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

  Louis L'Amour

  Opportunity, Men, World

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The First Fast Draw: A Novel”, p.90, Bantam

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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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• Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.

  Rich Galen

  Jobs, Bills, Stimulus

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• People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rivers, Water, People

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• Let our hearts touch far horizons.
  Let our love know no borders,
  Draw the Circles wide until,
  No one stands alone.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Heart, Circles, Borders

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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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