Circumscribed Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

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
Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To… — Tana French
For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed. — Kenneth Grahame
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in… — Hannah More
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,… — H. L. Mencken
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason. — Carol Gilligan

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