Confining Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
— David Byrne
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles,…
— Pamela Anderson
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To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining…
— Martin Van Buren
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.
— Lily Tomlin
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its…
— Primo Levi
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If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine…
— Alice Cooper
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I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is…
— Elisha Cuthbert
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Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they…
— Hugh Prather
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Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can…
— Richard G. Scott
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Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
— Deepak Chopra
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison…
— David Bentley Hart
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We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than…
— Karl Albrecht
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Maybe nothing is artâ€, maybe everything is or could be art. To that, no doubt she would have responded like she did in the installation:…
— Miuccia Prada
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Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would…
— Ibn Arabi
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When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining…
— Peter Singer
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This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.
— William Shakespeare
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There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.
— William Shakespeare
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I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or…
— Birch Bayh
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Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it…
— Charles Spurgeon
Who Wrote These Confining Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 31 Confining Quotes, led by these top contributors: