Bounded Quotes

40 quotes by 40 authors

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be… — Francis Bacon
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the… — Philip Guedalla
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. — Gene Wolfe
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes… — James Pollard Espy
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The… — William Stafford
Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her… — Thomas Keneally
It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history -… — Richard M. Nixon
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didnâ€™t know enough to stay in… — S. J. Perelman
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions… — C. Wright Mills
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? — Michel de Montaigne
Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood, mirrored in the… — David Moles
Cloud bounded along the earth like a ball — Garrett P. Serviss
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion… — Abraham Lincoln
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded… — Charles Dickens
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then… — Joseph Campbell
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an… — George Edward Woodberry
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led. — William Wordsworth

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