Confines Quotes

107 quotes by 103 authors

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its… — John Berger
Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label. — Jo Brand
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. — Jean de la Bruyere
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. — Italo Calvino
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free… — Thomas Carlyle
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia.… — Chuck Hagel
I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from… — Lenny Bruce
Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. — Elbert Hubbard
Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of… — John Joseph Griffin
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile,… — Michel Foucault
The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective,… — Paul Hasluck
Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the… — William Shakespeare
Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. — Michael Gambon
As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we canâ€™t experience the state of non-thinking. If we canâ€™t experience non-thinking, we… — Taizan Maezumi
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem… — Nnamdi Azikiwe
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger… — Malcolm X
The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena - where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation -… — Lee M. Silver
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our… — John Milton
I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance… — William O. Douglas

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