Top 144 Widening Quotes & Sayings

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots.'

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

We've incorporated different sounds from different countries and genres, and we've explored widening the range of our music.

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

I have no concern with widening audience.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

Widening a garment or making it larger is not understanding the real curves of a plus size women.

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

Activist court rulings, a broken infrastructure, and widening loopholes, have thrown our immigration system into an unmistakable chaos.

Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

The homeless often feel invisible, allowed to plummet through widening holes in the social safety net, then hidden in doorways from which people avert their eyes.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

An ever-widening definition of abuse can incite a culture of fear and complaint: encouraging teachers and girls to name and shame could mean labelling sexually awkward teenage boys as sex pests.

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

Not only does the UK have the highest levels of regional inequality among the major economies, the imbalance is widening, not narrowing.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of motives to people who say they see all this inequality out there and need to fix it. It's just not fair. You'll hear it manifest itself in discussions about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor or the widening gap between men and women. It's like actually two twin beds.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.