Proliferated Quotes

#1. Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

Katie Hafner

#2. Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

Evan Bayh

#3. It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.

George Orwell

#4. Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Nuclear had proliferated before it was safe, and there were accidents. Solar had proliferated before it was efficient, and people lost money. Both technologies got bad reputations and withered on the vine.

Dan Brown

#6. There are few things as unsettling as a lack of control in an unfamiliar situation.

Becky Chambers

#7. If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

John Maynard Keynes

#8. Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!

Rachel Caine

#9. Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

Martin Amis

#10. Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.

Muhammad Ali

#11. Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

John F. Kerry

#12. I don't know who I am any more. I have no bloody idea.
...
I don't know who I am. Or what my goal is ... or where I'm headed in life. Or anything

Sophie Kinsella

#13. Trying to eliminate worldly temptations
only makes our spiritual growth limited.

Toba Beta

#14. Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

Emeli Sande

#15. All music has to speak in some form or other.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau