Quotes About Expansion

The British population that used coal for heating and cooking was increasing, from 5.2 million in 1700 to 7.8 million in 1800, and on up to 12 million by 1831. Industry used coal for Newcomen engines pumping out coal mines and pumping water, although much of that coal was essentially mine waste. But iron smelting with coked coal began a major expansion after 1750, radiating outward from the Darby enterprise at Coalbrookdale and rapidly replacing smelting with charcoal made from wood.

By 1879, national hay production totaled 35 million tons, a figure that had nearly tripled to 97 million tons by 1909. More than half the land in New England was devoted to hay by 1909 as well, and at least twenty-two states harvested more than a million acres a year of hay and forage.11 The mechanization of American agriculture with horse-drawn or horse-powered machinery supported this vast expansion.

Begin with a concrete moment of encounter, based in this physical world, and the soul universalizes from there, so that what is true here becomes true everywhere else too.

Once you can get "out of the house," your "castle" and comfort zone, much of the journey has a life—and death—of its own.

Authentic God experience always expands your seeing and never constricts it. What else would be worthy of God? In God you do not include less and less; you always see and love more and more. The more you transcend your small ego, the more you can include.

This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own.

a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.

I'm stupid, Leo mumbled. Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite. He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward the edge. When he aligned the last ring, something inside the sphere clicked. The door swung open. Leo beamed at his friends. That, good people, is how we do things in Leo World. Come on in! I hate Leo World, Frank muttered. Hazel laughed.

WOULD IT SURPRISE you to learn that the place was bigger on the inside?

There is a world outside these walls.

You are the ever-expanding universe to me

William Spiver said that the universe was expanding…that means there will be more of everything! More cheese puffs, more jelly sandwiches, more words, more poems, more love. And more giant donuts…maybe even gianter donuts. Is gianter a word? It should be.

Firstly, we must widen our common literary world to include many more voices from beyond our comfort zones of the elite first-world cultures.

Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.

They don't have to think. Just be afraid naturally and pulling together. Like specks of mercury rolling into the big piece. Like little specks of mercury rolling into bigger specks and then bigger and then just one piece, and nothing to be scared about or hurt about because you're just a piece of a bigger piece getting bigger rolling across the land into an ocean of mercury...

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.