Best Confined Lines
310 Confined quotes by 269 unique authors
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You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you…
— Shams Tabrizi
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The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined…
— Wes Craven
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A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena…
— Joe Hyams
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If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly…
— Omar N. Bradley
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a…
— Rowan Williams
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Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have…
— Ben Stiller
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And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the…
— George Stigler
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There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you…
— Wilferd Peterson
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The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are…
— David McCullough
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The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.
— Francois Arago
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If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place…
— Rumi
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Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed…
— Unknown Author
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People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both…
— Stephen Covey
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I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.
— Swami Vivekananda
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I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.
— Homer
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
— Tennessee Williams
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I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained…
— Kenny Smith
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In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.
— Robert Breault
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My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the…
— James Boswell
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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but…
— Mark Twain
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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
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The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In…
— T.H. White
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The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and…
— Charles Dickens
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