#wide

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#economic #environment #global #global environment #our

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#class #concern #democratic #democratic party #economic

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ↗

— Robert Trout

#although #arrived #before #british #chinese

There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year. ↗

— David Milne

#applications #being #company #different #each

I turned my face to let his nose rub my cheek. "Mason, let's just stay here," I told him breathlessly. He chuckled, huskily and dangerously. "Oh, no, absolutely not. I'm not to be trusted with you alone right now. ↗

— Shelly Crane

#significance #soul-mates #wide-awake #soulmates

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. ↗

— Herbert Read

#deeper #existence #experience #human #human existence

Giles' shameful death was, of course, the sign of a crazy old man's inability to adapt to a new world. But his belief, that if there was no work to be had on our estate, then there was nothing for him but the workhouse, was probably right. ...His death was not a sensible reaction to our attempts to farm rationally and profitably. The last thing I needed was a pang of conscience about such an old fool. And I would be mad myself if I even considered that his death should be laid at my door, that I had made his world -- Wideacre -- unbearable. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#death

I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you forget. ↗

— Shelly Crane

#love #mason #shelly-crane #wide-awake #love

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

#back #day #few #filled #his

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aim-high #deep #effort #far-reaching #goal