Quotes About Expansion

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic.

What would the church look like if it wasn't contained on a piece of land?

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

When we find a way to quiet the mind, then awareness immediately expands and fills the vacuum.

when she contemplated the world situation she was aware that her mind would expand and become vast in three dimensions, and she could think years ahead, contemplating hundreds of moves as though she were observing a gigantic, global chessboard. When she planned, she planned sometimes decades in advance.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

The term "Kansas-Nebraska Territory" does not describe the area of Kansas and Nebraska as they are known today. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska territory included not only Kansas and Nebraska but also what is now part of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota and South Dakota. 48 Therefore, by extending slavery into parts of the Kansas-Nebraska territory, Democrats were pushing slavery westward across the nation, essentially from coast to coast.)

We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.

Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

the bicycle enabled more and more young men living in villages to court girls in distant villages thus giving a wider choice of mate and resulting in a more widespread and therefore richer human gene pool.

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience." – James D. Wilson

I love to compound interest in everything I do in life in all ways not just monetary activities but in all ways

With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.

Part of the reason that Rome fell is simply that it had expanded beyond the scale at which the economies of violence could be maintained. The cost of garrisoning the empire's far-flung borders exceeded the economic advantages that an ancient agricultural economy could support. The burden of taxation and regulation required to finance the military effort rose to exceed the carrying capacity of the economy. Corruption became endemic.

Part of the reason that Rome fell is simply that it had expanded beyond the scale at which the economies of violence could be maintained.

The Earth was never seen as a whole until astronauts viewed it for us from outside, and then we saw something very different from our expectation of a mere planet-sized ball of rock existing within a thin layer of air and water. Some astronauts, especially those who travelled as far as the moon, were deeply moved and saw the Earth itself as their home. Somehow we have to think like them and expand our instinctive recognition of life to include the Earth.

a fear-driven spirituality will always diminish rather than enlarge.

If you're not growing anywhere, you're not going anywhere.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.