Broadened Or Expanded Quotes

#1. As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Alan Moore

#2. When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

Austin Farrer

#3. We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Evelyn Waugh

#4. The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

E. Franklin Frazier

#5. There are spaces between breaths, when one year becomes another or one second another. Between the clock's tick and the second's hand. There are all these spaces, these times. Like when a person dies. There has to be time between being there and not being there.

Anne C. George

#6. My yearn for home is broadened
Patriotism expanded
By callings from beyond
So I pack my things
Nothing precious
All things sacred

Alanis Morissette

#7. Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

Robert Adams

#8. Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

George Herbert

#9. But explanations don't change anything, do they? They don't make you feel any better. You either like something or you don't, and if you don't like it, then knowing why it happens doesn't make any difference - it's still going to happen and you're still not going to like it, so what's the point?

Kevin Brooks

#10. I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

Edward Hirsch

#11. I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

Nina Bawden

#12. In those moments when the two of you see things differently, you can hold on to your view, defending it and protecting it and arguing for its superiority, or you can allow your perspective to be broadened, enriched, expanded, and deepened.

Rob Bell