#wide

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear! ↗

— William Allen Butler

#cost #declare #dollars #dress #five

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#characters #deep #four #half #half hours

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. ↗

— Georg Cantor

#concerning #defended #frequently #held #i

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. ↗

— Liz Carpenter

#create #ever #instead #learned #life

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#fought #higher #our #power #thought

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch. ↗

— Craig Charles

#circle #else #friends #i #i can

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. ↗

— Juan Cole

#arrest #decision #early #his #how

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#always #anymore #certain #deserve #fans

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. ↗

— Marquis de Condorcet

#bringing #congress #earth #educated #educated people