| "You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy." »Henry Havelock Ellis |
| "If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." »George Santayana |
| "It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle." »Matthew Arnold |
| "The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein |
| "It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." »Jane Hamilton |
| "By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius |
| "There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire |
| "Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." »Anonymous |
| "Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift." »Tom Stoppard |
| "The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." »Frances Willard |
| "The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth." »Charles Luckman |
| "The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true." »Roger Babson |
| "Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative." »Lu Yen |
| "One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy." »Frank Shutts |
| "Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer |
| "There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin |
| "Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself." »Herbert Clark Hoover |
| "You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer |
| "The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." »Elizabeth Hardwick |
| "The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest." »Michael |
| "When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper." »Martin Luther |
| "Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done." »A. E. Hotchner |
| "It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task." »Virgil |
| "A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a 1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web." »Karen Burka |
| "There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'" »Alan Marshall Beck |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
