Bounds Quotes
239 quotes by 213 authors
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
— John O. Brennan
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
— Samuel Butler
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Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on;…
— Florence Nightingale
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
— William Shakespeare
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit…
— Cary Middlecoff
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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
— Confucius
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
— Luigi Pirandello
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Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her…
— John Calvin
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
— Thomas Huxley
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I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
— John Stuart Mill
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the…
— John Burroughs
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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
— William James
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It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend…
— David Hume
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