“ I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
“ Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
“ We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
“ The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
“ The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. ”
- Clara Barton- Copy
“ In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
“ Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
“ During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
“ The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
“ Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
“ Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is "All striving is vain," will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy… ”
- William James- Copy
“ One of the false dichotomies of modern life is that between work and personal time. It is widely held that there is a set of skills that we need for one and quite a different set that we need for the other. But this is not true. The skills of problem-solving, for example are of great value in our personal lives, and overcoming stress and anxiety is a key skill in our work… ”
- Gillian Butler and Tony Hope- Copy
“ Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. ”
- C. E. Montague- Copy
“ The modern developments of economic science in relation to rent indicate progress. For we are learning that what is commonly called the rent of land is really a very complex thing made up of many elements, some of which differ more widely from one another than it, as a whole, differs from profits, or than some elements of it differ from wages. ”
- Alfred Marshall- Copy
“ The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
“ Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided… ”
- Sarah Schulman- Copy
“ Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. ”
- Bertolt Brecht- Copy
“ Criticism is often not a science, it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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