Hemmed Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of…
— Heinrich Burkhardt
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On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the…
— Sun Tzu
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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same…
— Albert Finney
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In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks,…
— Paulo Coelho
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And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a…
— Busy Philipps
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If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those…
— Jenna Ushkowitz
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the…
— Albert Camus
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Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to…
— Scott Westerfeld
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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean…
— H.G. Wells
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How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms…
— Louise Erdrich
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I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in…
— Rose George
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I wonder how many people wake up each day to face or hide from emptiness. Emptiness in a job, relationship, pursuit and other facets of…
— Trinity Chasara
Who Wrote These Hemmed Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Hemmed Quotes as follows: