Circumscribed Quotes

30 Circumscribed quotes by 28 unique authors

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not… — Lascelles Abercrombie
Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite. — Epicurus
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which… — Alexander Hamilton
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as… — Andrea Dworkin
There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and… — Marcus Aurelius
I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed… — Mary Church Terrell
So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and… — Fulton J. Sheen
Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by… — Victor Hugo
The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even… — Gregory Palamas
Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of Creation where God… — Gregory Palamas
To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself. The… — Michael Azerrad
The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by… — Bruno Walter
The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more… — Learned Hand
I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is… — Gerhard Richter
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of… — Leon Croizat
Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our… — Mortimer Adler
Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of… — George Will
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within… — Marcus Aurelius
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever… — Christopher Marlowe
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure… — Italo Calvino
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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