Best Confined Sayings
310 Confined quotes by 269 unique authors
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood.…
— Eudora Welty
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Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.
— Robert Ludlum
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Training should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more…
— David Ogilvy
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know…
— Boyd K. Packer
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The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and…
— Martin Seligman
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Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a…
— Truman Capote
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I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,…
— Dorothea Dix
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I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined spaces now. When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not…
— Joe Biden
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To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
— William Blake
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There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however,…
— John Woolman
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Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
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A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it…
— David Ricardo
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There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring the stars ……
— Elon Musk
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If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather…
— George Armstrong Custer
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot…
— Adolf Galland
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Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's…
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is…
— Brennan Manning
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The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or…
— Marilyn Frye
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Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
— Cardinal Richelieu
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We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but…
— Francis Galton
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The loving parts of your personality are content, grateful, patient, appreciative, caring, and more. They are interested in others. They do not judge others or…
— Gary Zukav
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Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than…
— John Welwood
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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the…
— Martin Van Buren
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I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your…
— Neville Goddard
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