Quotes About Expansion

also for some strategic reconceptualizing – which should deeply interest anyone trying to get out of the box.

Gli uomini empiono il tempo, e le grandi opere lo allargano.

My cosmos is mere free so spread it like a spree

And I believe the Russian people will soon be drawn to the south, to the sea and the sun.

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is the ocean.

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond...

Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vida, si son una defensa que tú interpones para mantener alejado al mundo de fuera, un sueño en el que te hundes como en una droga, o bien si son puentes que lanzas hacia el exterior, hacia el mundo que te interesa tanto que quieres multiplicar y dilatar sus dimensiones a través de los libros.

To explode or to implode – said Qfwfq – that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration.

Crecer en círculos concéntricos, como los troncos de los árboles que cada año aumentan una vuelta.

Una poesia vive anche per il potere d'irradiare ipotesi divagazioni associazioni d'idee in territori lontani, o meglio di richiamare e agganciare a sé idee di varia provenienza, organizzandole in una mobile rete di riferimenti e rifrazioni, come attraverso un cristallo.

Su ánimo pérfido se expansionaba sobre todo con la cocina. Era excelente cocinando, ya que no le faltaba ni prontitud ni fantasía, cualidades principales para una cocinera.

My empire has grown too far toward the outside. It is time,' the Khan thought, 'for it to grow within itself.

The main thrust of his poetics was constantly to raise the target which literature sets itself: he challenges literature to describe the indescribable, from macrocosm to microcosm, from the Big Bang to the division of cells.

the broadening of cultural perspectives can in turn broaden the range not only of what can be sensed but what can be perceived.

In America today, there are over 1.1 million nonprofit organizations, and almost all are 501(c)(3)s. There are about 370,000 churches. Just twenty years ago, in 1995, there were 500,000 active 501(c)(3)s and about 370,000 churches. What these numbers show is that in twenty years the competition has nearly doubled. Each year finds the number of nonprofits in America growing.

What would the world be like if we were more curious about light and less afraid to admit our own luminosity? How would our sense of beauty expand if we actively inspired each other to bring forward the light we each carry?

I see the world is flat and the map flat that records it, and both page and world speak each other forever. Put a fold in eternity and it is just as flat and wide. Take the map of the world and fold it into a boat and the boat becomes the world.

the factory-owners and traders, grew stronger as a result of the new trade frontiers in America, Africa and the Far East.

Britain alone controlled almost a fifth of the world.

Marx thought that capitalism's essential urge to expand and look for further markets and cheaper labour was the driving force behind the European imperialism of the 19th century.

The Rise of the US and Germany By the time the United States was strong enough to join the imperialist land grab, very few territories remained. Beyond its small island bases in Puerto Rico and Hawaii, the US did little except relieve Spain of its last colonial post in the Philippines, and to force Japan to open itself to foreign trade.

as more attention is given to distinguishing between pinpoint differences in touch, sound, or sight, the area of the brain devoted to that distinction expands and, in the process, gets better at it.