Wider Quotations

The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.

Developers need to start moving away from the entitled macho-male power fantasy in their games. They need to recognize that there are wider stories that they can tell.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

I am just so appreciative of God's love. It's higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean, and wider than the whole universe. His love is just that amazing!

If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

Here's the rule that I set for myself, and I believe it - even on a show like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm': the more personal you are, the wider your audience.

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.

As a small business or startup, one of the factors you should always consider when looking at a potential partnership is the incremental potential reach. Note that wider reach doesn't always mean a better partnership opportunity. Instead of sheer scale, take a look at which communities your potential partner can open up for you.

There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.

The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

I like to maintain my collection as a provocative collection that makes people think. While certainly my stamp will be visible on Black Fleece, it is meant for a wider audience.

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

We're going to take our resources and spread them across a wider reach. We'll repay the citizens of Oklahoma City and provide them with their best NBA experience, because this might be their only one. But we'll try not to lose step with what we were doing in the New Orleans marketplace. We don't want people (in New Orleans) to ask, 'Where were you?' These are our fans. And our fellow citizens.

We would view this as a missed opportunity to have a wider debate on the wisdom of these restrictions that are driving up costs for taxpayers.

We found that online daters had access to a wider pool that could help them find a better match. They could search for people and focus on niche interests like religion affiliation. They also had a sense of control in an arena where a lot is left up to chance.

We're just now realizing how badly off the economy was in the second quarter, ... The wider trade gap, along with the weakness we saw in the business inventory numbers that came out this week and weaker construction spending, will probably result in a second-quarter revised GDP number that will be zero or even slightly negative. It will be an eye-opening number, but it's no more worrisome than what we've seen.

With the new 2007 Quest, we're staying ahead of the segment, while becoming more accessible to a wider audience. It's a synergy of style and flexibility that is unmatched by any other minivan on the market.

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

What we need to get done as a community is have a wider range (of houses) approved.

We've been keeping close to home for a long time, ... We're excited with this next phase, bringing it to a wider audience.

We host 40% of the major sites on the Internet, and so statistically, we are going to see a good fraction of those, ... It's not infrequent. It just means that we have to do more sophisticated analysis and have a wider range of addresses that we filter for.

The extended line of Denny Cook-in-sauces was developed to include a wider scope of classic dishes that are loved by the family but are time-consuming to prepare, giving consumers more choice and versatility without all the unnecessary fuss.

The problem with the November employment numbers is hiring for the holiday season. It's hard to get a gauge of what it's going to be. They do a seasonal adjustment to the number to account for that, but the seasonal adjustment causes wider swings. And this year Thanksgiving came later in the month, so hiring might have started after the November data was collected.

When I do things, like, with Josh Grobin, or he has so many fans, and I get people after my concerts, classical concerts, all the time coming back and saying, 'Never heard of you until I heard the song with Josh Grobin.' Then they're now classical music fans, which is something I think we need to reach a wider audience.

We live in an age where virtually every sector in every country on the planet is contaminated by piracy and counterfeiting and this is having devastating effects on our businesses, the economy and wider society.

There are two revolutions taking place. One revolution is taking place in the living room with high definition, bigger and wider screens. The second revolution is portable television.

WE'VE taken an already great product and added a new look we're confident will appeal to a much wider audience. It has a distinctive Ford DNA, resembling the Ford Territory.

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

Make sure that the inside spread of the buck's rack is wider than the tips of the ears. To be safe, look for some daylight between the inside of the main beams and the tips of his ears.

Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation.

Many might see this as a signal of a wider trend that dollar holdings might eventually be cut. It did have an impact on the market, although this is not representative of how global reserve holders are going to allocate their reserves.

Mobility is becoming a big factor for businesses. The WLAN will eventually replace the LAN switch entirely, resulting in a much larger network. The mobile edge of the network is much wider than the wired edge.

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

Music is a huge part of my life and something I enjoy very much. I wanted to use my platform to share and promote the talented, undiscovered artists I listen to every day with a wider audience.

More than men, women are enthusiastic online communicators, and they use e-mail in a more robust way. Women are more likely than men to use e-mail to write to friends and family about a variety of topics: sharing news and worries, planning events, forwarding jokes and funny stories. Women are more likely to feel satisfied with the role e-mail plays in their lives, especially when it comes to nurturing their relationships. And women include a wider range of topics and activities in their personal e-mails.

Now, we're saying there's a wider universe out there.

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Obviously Seven and Ten will be able to show more free-to-air games which I think is very important, and I think they'll be able to take it to a wider audience than Nine on its own.

My sense is that the high oil prices we've sustained throughout this year are beginning to take hold in the operating costs of a wider swath of US companies.

Nico has a wider technical knowledge than his father, he is very fast and aggressive and has a big future.

If we even suspect that fraudulent activity could take place, we close those cards to protect those customers. While it's a very, very small number of people that are actually affected by fraud, we cast a wider net.

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.

I am going to vote for Ken Clarke. For years the wider electorate has told us that Ken Clarke should be the leader of our party and prime minister of our country,

I believe that New York City is still vibrant. I think New York will still be the financial center. Today's communications technology allows firms to cast a wider umbrella under which firms would be able to locate people in and conduct business with what is bound to remain in Manhattan.

I am thrilled to become international 'Vogue' editor at Conde Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the 'Vogue' websites.

Business customers today are demanding a wider range of data and video networking solutions to link their employees and their locations, ... Clover's capabilities are an outstanding addition to Ameritech's already strong portfolio of data services. By teaming Clover and Ameritech, we'll be able to deliver more of the solutions business customers want today.

Bush thus made a strong statement that the court has room for highly distinguished justices and not-so-distinguished justices, for nominees who have made their reputations in the wider legal world and for nominees people have hardly heard of, for world-class lawyers and for lawyers he happens to know and like.

Budapest is right in line with our international strategy, and we have won it at a fair price, reflecting the true value to BAA of the assets involved, rather than any wider strategic benefits.

Barley can be relied on in the proved areas of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, and Montana, while oats have a much wider range.

I have always enjoyed racing at Chicagoland, ... Yes, it is a basic 1.5-mile oval, but it seems to have a different personality. It is wider than most of the other tracks and the grip level is good everywhere. So you see a lot more drivers using the high groove. I think that is why there have been so many close finishes there. I think there will be another close one this year. I just want to have the front of my car cross the line first this time.

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

I can't imagine that I would seek to approach this job and seek to reach out to a wider Muslim audience without first seeking the advice, opinions and input of our American Muslim community.

From Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, we see the same patterns of under-representation and stereotyped portrayal of women in the news. The reason for these patterns is complicated. From the story angle and the choice of interview questions to the use of language and the choice of images; all these have a bearing on the messages that emerge in the news. These patterns are deeply rooted not only in professional practice, but in wider social assumptions about female and male attributes, roles and competencies.

I don't think we're far behind Lawyer Ron. We lost enough ground in the Rebel on the first turn and were a little wider than him in the second turn to make me think that he wasn't three lengths better than us.

I don't think it's a good sign that it's so politically connected. I think it would have been better to have a wider range of personalities.

For us, the direct benefit we think will be to introduce a wider range of students to all of the opportunities that are in aviation.

Global imbalances have become wider over the past few years. The risk is significant of a sharp adjustment.

If we look at a wider canvas, humanity has witnessed unimaginable, enormous and immeasurable changes and progress in the last one thousand years.

He went a little wider than I wanted to go, but I had a lot of horse and he did the rest.

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

We're pleased to be working with HP to deliver Rhapsody via their new consumer notebook and desktop PC lines. This new agreement will enable a much wider audience of consumers to experience Rhapsody and use it to manage their personal digital music collections. We're pleased to bring Rhapsody to HP and a growing list of leading companies like Comcast, Cox, and Sprint.

to extend the investigation into wider analysis of possible anti-competitive conduct in the aviation industry.

We may now look to target 15-25 year olds for instance, but we will definitely look to target a wider range. The additional funding will allow us to work on this, as well as increasing the amount of times each advert is shown.

'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our personal story, the story of you, which is tailored for your character. You answer some basic questions; you make some decisions early on, and that follows through.

The only thing I would do differently is, I might make the great room wider and longer. When we do get a ton of people up here, this room is full - but that's like designing a church for Easter Sunday.

Kitchens generally tend to recoup their cost, and bathrooms too. Those are widely appealing to the marketplace, and they tend to be more standard in form. Things that are very idiosyncratic and are customized to the homeowners' individual tastes--they don't appeal to a wider audience.

I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth.

It has always been Cramer's strategy to place inventory at the core of the OSS, as opposed to providing a passive database of record. The power of inventory at the core means that we can use the inventory to drive the systematic integration of wider OSS functionality within one, converged platform.

It isn't like an industry group where everyone knows the same industry. The idea is to have diversity of perspective. So what you have in common is your role as the CEO.... And because they come from different industries and different kinds of companies, you tend to get a much wider perspective than you would otherwise.

I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers, ... We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

J&J is a lot more diversified as a company than Boston Scientific, and they have a bigger revenue base spread over a wider area.

Our industry is transitioning into the next generation of radio. Consumers will hear a better quality sound with a wider variety of formats.

Over the next 15 years ... our cities will face ballistic missile threats from a wider variety of actors -- North Korea, probably Iran and possibly Iraq,

Our software instruments have completely reshaped live video production. We are very excited to be able to offer our complete product line to the rapidly growing VJ market for both the Mac and PC platforms. With the wider variety of hardware available for the Windows platform, live video has a chance to really explode.

Overall ad budgets may be getting larger but they are being spread over a wider array of platforms.