Widenings Quotes & Sayings

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it. — James Russell Lowell

Nobody likes paying tolls. It's difficult to explain the concept of dynamic tolling, where the price varies to maintain the flow of traffic. And it's difficult to explain why highway widenings don't wind up helping commuters in the long run. — Robert James Thomson

Unlike her, nothing had yet happened to him. — Allan Gurganus

To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them. — Robin G. Collingwood

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration."
I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever. — Kevin Hearne

Do not too late to tell me, I love you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus demands to be Master and Lord of every part of your life. Is He Lord of your mind, of what you think, read, and believe? Of what you dream about, meditate on, and entertain yourself with? Do your eyes belong to Christ? Can [you] ask God's blessing on it? Can [you] do this to the glory of God? — Billy Graham

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you. — Estelle Maskame

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear. — Margaret Atwood

Be attentive to the voice of grace. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit. — Wilkie Collins

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She's only doing good if your daughter's doing good. We're all one family. — Kanye West

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it. — Donna Shalala

I've never met an author I can't love to hate or a book I haven't paid full price for. — Keith M. Weller