Top 100 Quotes About Widely
#1. How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.
Thomas Hood
#2. Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.
Thomas Huxley
#3. We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).
Keith Devlin
#4. Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
Robert Adams
#5. I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits. Though certainly one needs enough of those to finance the former things.
Julie Klassen
#6. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.
John Green
#7. In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.
Warwick Thornton
#8. Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.
Annie Jacobsen
#9. Her power is seen in the fact that the good news of Coca Cola is more widely proclaimed than the good news of Jesus Christ. Consumerism is making disciples in all nations through its seductive charms.
Iain M. Duguid
#10. The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.
Ed Bearss
#11. Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.
Holly Johnson
#12. I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.
Jeri Ryan
#13. The United States should ... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests.
William J. Clinton
#14. In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.
Stephen Crane
#15. The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
Charles Colson
#16. It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the rest of them were under surveillance anyhow.
Anna Funder
#17. The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
Eric Schlosser
#18. Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely
Terry Pratchett
#19. It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Ed Markey
#20. World's most widely read books. In the years that followed, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anchee Min, and Dith Pran shared their harrowing memories of the communist nightmares in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia.
Steven Pinker
#21. No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
Ang Lee
#22. But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.
Arthur C. Clarke
#23. If it is so easy to help people in real need through no fault of their own, and yet we fail to do so, aren't we doing something wrong? At a minimum, I hope this book will persuade you that there is something deeply askew with our widely accepted views about what it is to live a good life.
Peter Singer
#24. This informal "pre-exclusion" is probably the more powerful and widely exerted form in many churches. It is in my denomination. As the divorced and remarried don't seek communion at a Roman Catholic parish, gays and lesbians don't seek to participate in most evangelical churches.
Ken Wilson
#25. Joy is designing and building something that actually sees the light of day and is enjoyably used and widely adopted by the people for whom it was intended.
Richard Sheridan
#26. But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
Derek Bailey
#27. Meanwhile, Singapore has implemented an Electronic Road Pricing System that has virtually eliminated congestion. Americans collectively spend over one hundred billion hours stuck in traffic jams, a testament to the fact that road pricing is not yet widely adopted.
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
#28. Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
Pankaj Mishra
#29. Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
Horace
#30. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
George Soros
#31. This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.
Vincent Martin
#32. They were brilliant, widely read, incisive, and effortlessly effective analysts and programmers. Which is another reason why, ultimately, so many people died.
Charles Stross
#33. I'm world famous. Throughout the globe - north, south, east, and west - there are literally four people who know my name. It's great to have all four grandparents still living, and widely dispersed around the world.
Jarod Kintz
#34. It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
#35. We know that new ideas often come from the cross-fertilisation of different fields, occurring in the mind of a widely knowledgeable person.
Ian Leslie
#36. If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.
John Ruskin
#37. The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied
Edward Jenks
#38. I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Peter Benchley
#39. In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#40. Focus group methods by Adam Gottbetter are find their way into and are widely used to examine people's experiences of disease and of health services.
Adam Gottbetter
#41. What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
Ouida
#42. Universal appreciation of art ... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so easy, literature on art never so profuse, and works of art never so widely distributed, a real passion for pictures is encountered but rarely.
Walter J. Phillips
#43. By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.
Eric Ries
#44. However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
Garrett Hardin
#45. America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
Garry Trudeau
#46. What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?
Daniel J. Boorstin
#47. Overwork is this decade's cocaine, the problem without a name," says Bryan Robinson, who has written widely about the phenomenon and estimates that as many as 25 percent of Americans have the addiction.
Jim Loehr
#48. The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century.
Nathaniel Branden
#49. He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions.
J.C. Ryle
#50. Whatever such rites entailed, the madness of Dionysus was widely accepted as a religious practice. Indeed, it was one of the few ways women were able to obtain a measure of freedom in an otherwise limited public sphere. Was
Elizabeth Blackwell
#51. Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?
Rush Limbaugh
#52. Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil.
Ronaldinho
#53. The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
Paul Di Filippo
#54. The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
Andrea Bocelli
#56. When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.
Thomas L. Friedman
#57. From time to time I yawn so widely that tears roll down my cheek.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#58. I said before, that I have learnt much by guiding others. In the first place I see that all souls have more or less the same battles to fight, and on the other hand, that one soul differs widely from another, so each must be dealt with differently.
Therese De Lisieux
#59. It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy
Albert Bandura
#60. Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
Aaron Klein
#61. She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
David Mitchell
#62. The subject matter of daydreams has been determined by modern science to vary widely, ranging from having sex with a stranger on a train to having sex with a coworker to having sex with Mila Kunis.
Colin Nissan
#63. Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
Thomas Frank
#64. Finn O'Finnegan looked like a rogue and walked like a rascal, so it was widely thought that he was at least one or the other. And his shadow, which followed him closely and knew all of his secrets, might have said he was both.
Stephen Krensky
#65. A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Susan Cain
#66. This sense of absence had been growing ... It was wearing into him. Last night he had woken besides his sleeping wife and had to touch his own face to be assured he remained a physical entity...He was widely known as man without edges, without faults or virtues a man who did not fully exist.
Ian McEwan
#67. It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.
Chelsea Clinton
#68. So anger helps us defend threatened territory - it is just, and it is honest. Not only that - it is healthy. It is widely believed that bottling up anger can kill us, slowly and in three different ways.
Martin E.P. Seligman
#69. Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
Herman Daly
#70. Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing - and finishing - a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.
Garth Nix
#71. Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how to resolve the problems of production and division of goods.
Czeslaw Milosz
#72. In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
Asa Gray
#73. A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Walter Savage Landor
#74. The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world.
Seth Adam Smith
#75. Every lady ought to be a perfect horsewoman, that she may accompany her husband." "You see how widely we differ, Sir James. I have made up my mind that I ought not to be a perfect horsewoman, and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady.
George Eliot
#76. People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.
Laura Miller
#77. it's not the quantity of government regulations, taxes, or the size of government that distinguish Australia or Germany from the US, but whether government rules broadcast the gains from growth widely or narrowly.
George R. Tyler
#78. The good news is that you just need a bit of compassion to become vegetarian, and this is something widely found in the human race.
Armand Chauvel
#79. Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
Charles Lyell
#80. Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#81. I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
Taslima Nasrin
#82. I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#83. Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
William Feather
#84. I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.
Robert Rauschenberg
#85. Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
John Ortberg
#86. The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.
Curt Sachs
#87. What does it mean for something to be natural? When we say that something is "natural", what we often actually mean is that it is widely accepted or practiced, whereas something that is "unnatural" is foreign or strange to us.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#88. It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
John Perry Barlow
#89. The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it.
Milton Friedman
#90. The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#91. You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies, life, and thinking, attempts to find a way for women to speak, will improve widely in Korea.
Kim Hyesoon
#92. Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
George Carlin
#93. If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
Johnny Ball
#94. we need to design our systems so that they are continually creating telemetry, widely
Gene Kim
#96. The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.
Garry Robbins
#97. I am sorry I have wasted (and still waste) so much time; I am sorry to be as agonizingly shy at eighty as I was at twenty; I am sorry that I speak no languages but my mother tongue and that I have not traveled or experienced other cultures as widely as I should have done.
Oliver Sacks
#98. Perhaps the most widely accepted and damaging element of dietary Conventional Wisdom is that grains are healthy - the "staff of life" - as we've been led to believe our entire lives.
Mark Sisson
#99. She was loved deeply, but not widely
John Green
#100. I've often wondered why Nature, widely publicized being infinite in its wisdom, should have made the grave mistake of creating redheads, always so impulsive and quick on the trigger.
P.G. Wodehouse
