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Quotes About Far-reaching

The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could actually remold society, remold it all wrong
~ Jon Ronson
Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They're right. But these 'protections' are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.
~ Jared Polis
Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.
~ James Gordon Brown
Other eras and cultures often asked different questions from the ones we ask now: What is the most meaningful thing you can do with your life? What's your contribution to the world or your community? Do you live according to your principles? What will your legacy be? What does your life mean? Maybe our obsession with happiness is a way not to ask those other questions, a way to ignore how spacious our lives can be, how effective our work can be, and how far-reaching our love can be.
~ Rebecca Solnit
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
~ Herbert Hoover
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
~ Carter G. Woodson
And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.
~ Kevin Clash
To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
~ Swami Sivananda
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.
~ Robert Lifton
The tentacles of Islamic State are far-reaching, and the restrained and tepid international response that Mr. Obama has pursued will not eliminate this terrorist organization.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
The public health ramifications of our scandalous open borders are possibly even more dangerous and far-reaching than the economic and political consequences.
~ Tom Tancredo
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
~ Arthur Henderson
I am not deep, but I am very wide.
~ Balzac
Just as Snow was concocting his theory of cholera as a waterborne agent that had to be ingested to do harm, Chadwick was building an elaborate scheme that would deliver the cholera directly to the mouths of Londoners. (A modern bio-terrorist couldn't have come up with a more ingenious and far-reaching scheme).
~ Steven Johnson
In all my teaching I have watched carefully the influence of the tooth-brush, and I am convinced that there are few single agencies of civilization that are more far-reaching.
~ Booker T. Washington
When you realize that quantum mechanics underlies all physical processes, from the fusing of atoms in the sun to the neural firings that constitutes the stuff of thought, the far-reaching implications of the proposal become apparent. It says that there's no such thing as a road untraveled. Yet each such road—each reality—is hidden from all others.
~ Brian Greene
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
~ Gerry Adams
Now, there is simply no possibility of a real change in the Negro's situation without the most radical and far-reaching changes in the American political and social structure. And it is clear that white Americans are not simply unwilling to effect these changes; they are, in the main, so slothful have they become, unable even to envision them.
~ James Baldwin
Primary prevention requires a shift from a focus on programs to a focus on more far-reaching prevention initiatives and from a focus on the individual to a focus on the environment.
~ Larry Cohen
The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
President Obama made far-reaching, unilateral changes to our nation's immigration policy despite saying on over 22 different occasions that he did not have the authority to do so.
~ Ron DeSantis