A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct…

The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not…

— Samir Selmanovic

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or…

— Henry Fielding

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one…

— Hannah Arendt

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

— Aristotle

Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,…

— Hannah More

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of place. Im…

— Iceberg Slim

In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings…

— David Chang

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every…

— Robert Altman

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have…

— David Josiah Brewer

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is…

— Ansel Adams

What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

— Marjo-Riikka Makela

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

— Pervez Musharraf

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley