Wider Quotes

The universe is wider than our views of it.
Henry David Thoreau

Universe, Views

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates

Fear, Reverence, Everywhere

The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot

Vision, Tolerance, Lies

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson

Battle, Once, Union

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot

Life, Public, Determined

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
Hal Borland

Again, Once, Seen

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Alex Noble

Peace, Nature, Good

Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Work, Art

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
Tom Hiddleston

Talent, Finally, Helped

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Whole, Guess, Weight

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
Larry David

Perhaps, Credit, Range

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Nature, Time

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.
Jon Meacham

Women, Jesus, Same

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Herbert Read

Experience, Human, Progress

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
Peter Singer

Freedom, Hate, Evil

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Wole Soyinka

Nature, Art, Why

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Education, Work, Women

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
Rebecca West

Experience, Between, Universe

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.
Tom Morello

America, Rich, Poor

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene

Success, Failure, Dangerous

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
Alvin Toffler

Law, Culture, Jam

I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
Iain Duncan Smith

Hate, Both, Within

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.
Theresa May

Free, Within, Abuse

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
George Saunders

Good, Short, Whatever

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).
Lucy Powell

Economy, Jobs, City

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
Joshua Chamberlain

Power, Thought, Cause

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey

Possible, Rest, Ideas

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
Daniel Goleman

Before, Far, Interest

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
John Hawkes

Character, Actor, Level

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