Quotes About Expansion

Hadrian controlled the empire in a way which had no precedent. What he did, at first perhaps by instinct, but later almost certainly as a calculated and largely successful policy, was to take the established dynamics of imperial rule and aristocratic behaviour and expand them beyond anything that had been seen before.

it was as though huge windows above her had been smashed—the way the firemen must have smashed the windows of her childhood home— and now, here above her and around her, was the whole wide world right there, available to her once again.

Mensen denken dat een man die meerdere vrouwen bemint zijn liefde tussen zijn geliefden moet verdelen. Alsof het een fles is waar maar zoveel glazen uit gaan. Het tegenovergestelde is echter het geval. De liefde verdubbelt zich gewoon. En weer. En nog eens. En steeds opnieuw blijkt er genoeg te zijn voor iedereen. Het is een wonderbaarlijke vermenigvuldiging. Maar zoals het gaat met wonderen: wie er zelf niet bij is geweest, zal het niet willen geloven.

Estendi cordas de campanário a campanário; guirlandas de janela a janela; correntes de ouro de estrela a estrela, e danço.

Por necesidad batallo / y una vez puesto en la silla / se va ensanchando Castilla / delante de mi caballo.

el Imperio español incluía Alemania, Austria, Suiza, los Países Bajos, y parte de Francia y de Checoslovaquia. Y

Los libros son puertas que te llevan a la calle. Con ellos aprendes, te educas, viajas, sueñas, imaginas, vives otras vidas y multiplicas la tuya por mil.

Growth requires reinvestment.

I'm interested in planting church-planting churches.

Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Libraries are not made; they grow.

for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.

soul needs more space than the body. Not

They had been harsh in taking over new towns in Syria, and had alienated local women. For the caliphate to be able to function as a state, it needed more women, and they would need to come from abroad.

The expansion of the state thus had the effect of gradually diminishing tribal and local boundaries within the same ethnos, and of reducing the differences between separate -ethnies- in multi-ethnic states and empires, subsuming them within supra-ethnic identities, even to the point of creating new, transformed, and larger ethnic identities.

From head to heels, you must find your center, and from this center you must extend and expand longitudinally and latitudinally. If extension is from the intelligence of the brain, expansion is from the intelligence of the heart. While doing asana, both the intellectual intelligence and the emotional intelligence have to meet and work together. Extension is attention, and expansion is awareness, I often say.

When most people stretch, they simply stretch to the point that they are trying to reach, but they forget to extend and expand from where they are. When you extend and expand, you are not only stretching to, you are also stretching from.

We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas of the body. It is as if you were to stretch a canvas more and create a larger surface for a paining. But we must respect the present form of our body. If we pull too fast or too much at once, we will rip the canvas. If the practice of today damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.

He that cannot contract the sight of his mind, as well as disperse and dilate it, wanteth a great faculty.

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

The Godrej group is expanding rapidly. However, we are not diversifying much.

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.