Widest Quotes

#1. Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

Peter Kreeft

#2. If you're trying to cast the widest possible net to attract the largest selection of men or women, the last thing you should do is to start listing your income, political views, and the like. Avoid mentioning specific comedians, shows, or movies unless those are top-tier attributes on your list.

Amy Webb

#3. I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Lesley Garrett

#4. Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

Alex Berenson

#5. There were fissures and chasms in the walls and floor, and every now and then a crack would open right before their feet. The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just the widest demographic you can get.

Dave Coulier

#7. Love can leap over the highest mountain,
go around the widest fortress,
go under the deepest ocean,
and go through the thickest wall.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. As the director, you have to hold in your head the widest possible vision. Not just the idea and the story, but the conceptual content. But at the same time, you have to consider the tiniest, tiniest detail.

Sally Potter

#10. Expose them {your kids} to the widest variety of vegetables and fruits, showing them how good things can be in season. Tasteless fruits and vegetables won't win them over for life.

Mireille Guiliano

#11. The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.

Stephen Fry

#12. Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

L. P. Jacks

#13. Safe word?" "Tangerine and fuck you." "Breathe, brat," he said, jamming it in. He pulled it out so the widest part stretched me.

C.D. Reiss

#14. A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.

Ellen Kushner

#15. I do think there's a smaller audience that's looking for something that's a little more adult and a little more nuanced [than many Hollywood movies]. At the same time, I think everyone who's making movies hopes to appeal to the widest audience possible.

Joe Swanberg

#16. They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#17. The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. In a great library, you get into society in the widest sense ... From that great crowd you can choose what companions you please, for in these silent gatherings ... the highest is at the service of the lowest with a grand humility. In a library you become a true citizen of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory. In short, cognizability (in its widest sense) and being are not merely metaphysically the same, but are synonymous terms.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#20. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

William Osler

#21. Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Nicholas Stern

#22. On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

William James

#23. Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

Bell Hooks

#24. As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

Gren Wells

#25. The room you are about to enter," the Eagle said, setting up Nicole's wheelchair, "is the largest single room in this domain. It is half a kilometer across at its widest point. Inside currently is a model of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Arthur C. Clarke

#26. Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded that we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals, and communication is the way we can bring this about.

Louis Braille

#27. The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Aldous Huxley

#28. Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.

Terry Teachout

#29. The widest land
Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double. What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine
Must taste of its own grapes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#30. The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

John Updike

#31. My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

Hermann Hesse

#32. The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

Zig Ziglar

#33. Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Michael Haneke

#34. Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

Frances E. Willard

#35. It was the widest concerted attack ever. Hundreds of ships on at least four sides. Dozens of stations, millions of lives. Among the stars, it didn't stand out.

James S.A. Corey

#36. Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

Aaron Levie

#37. Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#38. I like to have the widest part of the car being the wheels and not the body. It gives it a more athletic look and, with the sculpture, helps make a car look sexy.

Henrik Fisker

#39. Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

William Morris

#40. Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Lewis Carroll

#41. The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#42. One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person's character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul - the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness.

Ayn Rand

#43. The widest point of disagreement between two intelligent people who can talk to each other is where there is the most to be learned.

Brett Ashton

#44. To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,
they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#45. Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don't want to be a slave to external powers.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#46. But, for myself, the Earth's records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.

Edgar Allan Poe

#47. Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

Margaret Fuller

#48. The only group large enough to handle," the world's biggest, "problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history.

Rick Warren

#49. Gu himself presides over the room- a genial, noisy man with the widest, jauntiest, must luxuriant and ambitious mustache I have ever seen, permanently fighting gravity and the razor in its attempts to make contact with Gu's eyebrows.

Peter Mayle

#50. Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas.

William James

#51. I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

Barbara Kingsolver

#52. The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

Jamie Dimon

#53. Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

Carl Sagan

#54. Genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation of its own works.

Marcel Proust

#55. To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

Charles Baudelaire

#56. Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

Herbert Read

#57. What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#58. Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

Alfred North Whitehead

#59. Such a sky. The widest she'd ever seen. Even more than the long bow of the shoreline and the eternal spread of the sea, it was the sky Betsy could not fold into her understanding, the cliffs and hillocks of the land overturned, sculpted into the stony clouds and softened with the promise of light.

Alison Atlee

#60. The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

Cat Stevens

#61. Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#62. I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.

Frederick Douglass

#63. Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty ...

Marie Corelli

#64. The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

Samuel Johnson

#65. The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.

Carl Sagan

#66. Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

Edmund Husserl

#67. There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Johan Huizinga

#68. Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#69. Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

#70. A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

Edward Alsworth Ross

#71. He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

Orison Swett Marden