Wide Quotes - Page 20

• The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wise, Men, Law

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

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• When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: "Here comes the bride, all fat and wide." Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

  Jo Brand

  Sun, Married, Moments

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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  Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

  Pam Brown

  Sweet, Feet, Pet

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• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Intelligent

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• The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

  Robert Burns

  World

  Robert Burns, Gilbert BURNS, Allan Cunningham (1840). “The Works of Robert Burns. With Life by Allan Cunningham, and Notes by Gilbert Burns [and Others], Etc. [With a Portrait and Facsimiles.]”, p.365

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• The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

  Octavia Butler

  Fiction, Way, Conditional

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• Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Firsts, Fantasy

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• I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

  Octavia Butler

  Wall, Fiction, Hem

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• For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

  Vince Cable

  Mean, Government, Support

  "Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.

  Graydon Carter

  Men, Thinking, Land

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Heaven, Hell

  Johnny Cash (1975). “MAN IN BLACK”

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• The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

  Willa Cather

  Animal, Energy, World

  Willa Cather (2013). “One of Ours”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Artist, Expression

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• It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Long, Three

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• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Winning, Eight

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help". www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

  Marie Corelli

  Summer, Sunshine, Two

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• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  Larry David

  Comfort, Half, Inches

  "Preeetty good. Larry's back and still misanthropic after all these years" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2017.

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• By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

  Roger Ebert

  Movie, Moving, College

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Voters, Consideration

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• And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Skins, Lioness, Lions

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book V". Book by C. Robertson, 1668.

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• I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

  Matthew Fox

  Space, Islands, Four

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Marriage, Funny Love

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Workout

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Writing, Trying

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