Quotes About Spread

The big advantage that the Mongols had over previous empire builders is that they themselves had nothing in the way of deeply ingrained ideas of politics, economics, or culture to spread abroad.

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

From this vantage point in the summer, the countryside below is a dreaming checkerboard over which it seems that one could, with a running start, spread one's arms and fly.

Cowardice is like a plague; it spreads. One sick individual can infect an entire population.

But once you start taking money out of my pocket, I got to say something." He spits deliberately. "Your land sets right in the middle of where they need to run them wells. I'm getting wells, Richard here is getting wells. Hell, even Jim Norton is getting wells, with the little spread he has. But until you sign that paper, none of us are going to see a dime." Mack

COUGH OR SNEEZE…FOOLS AND TRAITORS SPREAD DISEASE.

I never have bruises like that. I suppose it's being fat that makes them spread so. Won't you look lovely when you go yellow-green? That's one thing about me, said Fatty, I'm a wonderful bruiser. Once, when I ran into the goal-post at football, I got a bruise just here that was exactly the shape of a church-bell. It was most peculiar.

whispering. What a bit of news to spread round the school. What a row. And wasn't June MARVELLOUS! 'Honestly!

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a G-d, but never without belief in a devil. Usually, the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.

In John's version of the Temple incident, Jesus anticipates the time when there will no longer be a need for vendors, for every house not only in Jerusalem but in all of Judea shall be like the Temple itself. The sacred nature of the Temple will spread through all the people.

Los rumores, como los mitos, se parecen mucho a la niebla, que va extendiéndose de pueblo en pueblo y acaba medio borrando la realidad, aunque no su origen.

Optimists don't mind if you eavesdrop on them. They welcome it, in fact, because it helps them spread their fiendish gospel.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

As the West Coast offense has spread out among the NFL, as all of Bill Walsh's assistants and all of Mike Holmgren's assistants have gone on to be head coaches, it's all the West Coast offense, but it's all a little different, tailored to the personnel or the coordinators or the resources each team has.

Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Mayonnaise is basically the only condiment there is. Anything tastes better with lots of mayo... even a spoon.

The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

you cannot conquer fear until you have learned what it is you're afraid of." Then she added, "I had passed thirty-five before I realized that one can no more neglect chronic unhappiness than one can neglect an infected tooth. If misery, like a tooth, is left too long to fester the infection spreads and deepens.

An estimate is not a number. An estimate is a distribution.

more than anything it is social media that spreads the grandiosity virus. Through social media we have almost limitless powers to expand our presence, to create the illusion that we have the attention and even adoration of thousands or millions of people.