Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.
I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse.
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.
Quell rebellion before it spreads.
See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms, etc. - to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are "true," that they reveal a genuine feature of nature. . . You must have felt this too: The almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.
I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
Economics spreads happiness.
On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves.
The essence of what exists in the U. S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U. S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.
Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.