Narrow Quotes
836 quotes by 671 authors
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is…
— Juvenal
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A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.
— Tejomayananda
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War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from…
— Walter Savage Landor
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With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.
— Sun Tzu
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We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6)…
— Sun Tzu
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Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and…
— Unknown Author
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Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.
— Richard Holloway
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This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of…
— Mao Zedong
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken,…
— Wendell Berry
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
— Juvenal
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Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
— Colman McCarthy
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I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.
— Seve Ballesteros
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To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
— Bertrand Russell
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We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no…
— Theodore Dreiser
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
— Molly Ivins
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He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.
— Fred Allen
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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