Top 45 Widens Quotes
#1. As a man's knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholely what he must do.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
Philip Yancey
#3. Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
Claude Bernard
#4. You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he *must *do ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#5. This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.
Nigel Farage
#6. Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.
Sathya Sai Baba
#7. Sometimes, like when she got sick, the edge comes to me. Sometimes that happens for no reason. The chasm widens inexplicably even as I run from it-run for my life-until the ground beneath me evaporates and I am lost again despite my best, but futile efforts.
Ka Hancock
#9. The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
Honore De Balzac
#10. If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
Matthew Simpson
#11. Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#12. Zack looks at Jenna and slowly pulls off his sunglasses. "Why, hello, beautiful," he says. "I'm Zack." He shows off his dimples. "And you are ... ?"
"Not going to sleep with you," Jenna quips, grinning right back at him.
His smile widens. "Well played.
Chelsea Fine
#13. Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.
Pope Francis
#14. Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.
Irene Fantopoulos
#15. Time is pulling us apart. With every second that passes, the space between us widens. Today, I saw him yesterday. In a few days, it will have been last week. Then, last month. And there is nothing I can do to keep time from wedging more of itself between us. It is inevitable. - Miles
Will Kostakis
#16. The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
Helene D. Gayle
#17. I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.
Madi Diaz
#18. Alice's face widens in horror. I left my candy Coture bag on the table!' 'Oh, the tragedy! Smitty joins in, girlying it up. The dead people might be ... touching it!
Kirsty McKay
#19. Diagnostic ECG: Progressive changes include tall, thin T waves; prolonged PR interval; ST depression; widened QRS; and loss of P wave. Eventually, QRS widens further (sine wave) and cardiac arrest occurs (see
Ursula Eaterday Heitz
#20. Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
Yao Ming
#21. One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.
Patti Smith
#22. Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.
Matt Haig
#23. Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming
at a child, "Do something, dammit!" You'll either
freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear
widens the knowing-doing gap. Don't use it.
Martha Beck
#24. The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Dennis Potter
#25. The longer we live, the more our experience widens; the less prone are we to judge our neighbor's conduct.
Charlotte Bronte
#26. The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.
David Levithan
#27. Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical, mysterious, inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language.
Edward Hirsch
#28. No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
Ray Kurzweil
#29. Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
Vladimir Lenin
#30. Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind ... It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
Barbara Fredrickson
#31. No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.
Jonathan Kozol
#32. Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.
Shunryu Suzuki
#33. Love frees us of all pain, or of any restraint.
Once a circle that ever widens without end.
Various colors it shines in our lives to paint
Excelsis, glorious manifestation to befriend.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#34. Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
Craig Charles
#36. When we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.
Julia Gregson
#37. His grin widens, and leaning down, he undoes the tie.
E.L. James
#38. What are they now? he asks. He widens his eyes a little, leans closer, lets me look as long and as deep as I want.
Ally Condie
#39. Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.
Clint Black
#40. The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.
Kenneth Coutts-Smith
#41. With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big.
Andreas Feininger
#43. The depth of consciousness widens our breadth of understanding and makes us uniconscious.
Debasish Mridha
#44. I smirk. "That owl is one of your creations?"
Jeb's grin widens. "It was for bug-breath's own good. Dude's ancient ... he needs to stay in shape.
A.G. Howard
#45. Nick!' I flinch. 'What?' Jo widens her eyes at Mom. 'Forget it, Jo,' Mom says. 'He's not ready.'
'Yes, I am,' I tell her. 'I know I don't have a dad. Kenny DiPoto doesn't have a dad either because his dad got knifed in jail.'
'Geezus,' Jo breathes. 'What kind of neighbourhood is this?
Julie Anne Peters
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