Enlarging Quotes

#1. I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.

Gerald R. Ford

#2. All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Wallace Stevens

#3. I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now ... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

Paula Danziger

#4. God, I'm ready. I'm taking the limits off of You. I'm enlarging my vision. I may not see a way but I know You have a way. I declare I'm coming into a shift.

Joel Osteen

#5. Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

David A. Bednar

#6. We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Stanley

#7. Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.

Orison Swett Marden

#8. I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

William Ellery Channing

#9. If ... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Margaret Thatcher

#10. IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if the gaps are enlarging.

Pearl Zhu

#11. As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Mary E. DeMuth

#13. A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Robert Reed

#14. As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

Arne Glimcher

#15. For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Fadiman

#16. We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

Tom Robbins

#17. If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien.

Julian Huxley

#18. We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

Matthew Fox

#19. If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.

Philip Yancey

#20. God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#21. Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

Joan Aiken

#22. In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.

John Tyler Bonner

#23. We have seen that improved agents of destruction advance production by continually enlarging its outlets. The security of civilisation has been assured neither by the arts of peace nor yet by those of war, but by the cooperation of both

Gustave De Molinari

#24. Human progress has depended on enlarging the circle of compassion.

Carl Safina

#25. I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Vincent Van Gogh

#26. Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#27. I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the
Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

Lahiri Mahasaya

#28. Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives.

J.G. Ballard

#29. Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

#30. The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#31. Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

Marshall McLuhan

#32. There's always a good lesson in meeting new people, its enlarging your circle of friends. And though there are times you don't match with their likes, there are some whom you just blend well.

Solita

#33. The TV was a rage-making machine, working at him all the time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancour.

Don DeLillo

#34. I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.

Adrienne Rich

#35. the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.

George MacDonald

#36. The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

Walter Scott

#37. Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart - the gratitude of the heart.

Nirmala Srivastava

#38. It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life's thorns

Marquis De Sade

#39. The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#40. The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

Francis Bacon

#41. A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

Parker J. Palmer

#42. There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

Walter J. Phillips

#43. I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Bill Brandt

#44. Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase.

Stephen R. Covey

#45. If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

Edward Hopper

#46. Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times - the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world.

Adoniram Judson

#47. Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

M. Scott Peck

#48. Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#49. If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

Claes Oldenburg

#50. The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

Neal A. Maxwell

#51. By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Charles De Lint

#52. Information, then, teaches you about the world. Sometimes it does so by reducing your uncertainty about future events, and other times by enlarging your perspective.5

Thomas C. Redman

#53. Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

Romare Bearden

#54. The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

Edward Hirsch

#55. Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#56. As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

Cleveland Abbe