Wide Quotes - Page 13

• Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

  Walter Isaacson

  Stories, World, Way

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• The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1974). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Vision of God and Man, Confessions, Four Plays”, p.144, Library of Alexandria

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• There are two ways in which we may attain control over our activity. The first is confidence in the power of our own will; to know that if we have failed today, tomorrow we will not do so. The second is to have our eyes wide open, and to watch keenly our activity in all aspects of life. It is in the dark that we fall, but in the light we can see where we are going.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Fall, Eye, Dark

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• When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely.

  Charles Darwin

  Fashion, Men, Steps

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Illustrations. Tenth Thousand”, p.82

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• When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Cutting, Sea, People

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• Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

  Terence McKenna

  Hands, Pieces, World

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• It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, People, Twenties

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• Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.

  A. C. Bradley

  Taken, Hero, Suffering

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• Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

  Lawrence Block

  Maturity, Men, Years

  Lawrence Block (2010). “Everybody Dies”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Spring, Rain

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us and it's also not that fun to watch.

  Dan Fogelman

  Daughter, Mother, Fun

  Source: collider.com

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• You know something has really stuck in Tim's head when he's drawn what the character looks like. Weird Girl and Elsa actually switched places, at one point. I may be mis-remembering it, but the original design for Weird Girl was actually Elsa, but then it became Winona Ryder's character, and the new Weird Girl was just fantastic with those giant wide eyes.

  John August

  Girl, Character, Eye

  Source: collider.com

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• I was this wide-eyed kid wanting to see everything and do everything

  Courtney Jaye

  Kids

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• The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.

  John Reuben Zappin

  Boys, Thinking, Ideas

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• In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has lenient drug laws, including wide access to medical marijuana.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Marijuana, Government, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Actors, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends.

  Peter Webber

  Art, Icons, Zeppelins

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Yards, Wide Receiver

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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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• For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Parent, World

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.145

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• The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Jobs, Issues, Wife

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• I had been in the technology business for so long, I had seen the PC-bubble come and burst, I had seen the local area and wide area networking-bubble come and burst, it was no shock that the internet-bubble was going to burst.

  Mark Cuban

  Technology, Long, Networking

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• Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Home, Hair, Gone

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• A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Simple, Men, Differences

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• I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facts, Contrast

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