Wide Quotes - Page 4

• Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

  Dan Sperber

  Art, Poetry, Peculiar

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• A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

  Celia Green

  Mind, Together, Mouths

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• Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.

  Chase Twichell

  Spiritual, Mean, Journey

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• In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

  Adam Hochschild

  Determination, Years, Two

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• Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

  George Eliot

  Money, Errors, Differences

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.512, 谷月社

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• So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.

  David Oshinsky

  Children, Real, Mistake

  "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2011.

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• I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. January 19, 2015.

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• I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

  Emma Stone

  Jobs, People, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.

  Amit Ray

  Heart, Hands, Long

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.26, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Morning, Lying

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• You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
  Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
  The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
  And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, House, Dancer

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, People, Citizens

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Safety

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• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

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• I have since written what no tide
  Shall ever wash away, what men
  Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
  And find Ianthe's name agen.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ocean, Men, Names

  Walter Savage Landor (1863). “Heroic idyls, with additional poems”, p.230

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• How wide is all this long pretense!
  There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
  Copy out only that, and save expense.

  George Herbert

  Long, Poetry, Sweetness

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.103

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• Let us lie down once more by the breathing side
  Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep
  As if the Known Sea still were a month wide--
  Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

  Allen Tate

  Lying, Ocean, Sleep

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Big heart,
  wide as a watermelon,
  but wise as birth,
  there is so much abundance
  in the people I have.

  Anne Sexton

  Wise, Heart, People

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

  Johan Huizinga

  Country, Struggle, Government

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• Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.

  George Whitefield

  Heart, Spirit, Lord

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.192, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

  George W. Bush

  History, Movement, Determined

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

  Empedocles

  Light, Air, Sky

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• ... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Men, Ideas, Two

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• A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how to care inways appropriate to her age, her desires, and her needs; she then acts with authenticity. She must be allowed the freedom not to care; she then has access to a wide range of feelings and is able to care more fully.

  Jeanne Elium

  Girl, Responsibility, Feelings

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