Narrow Quotes

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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
A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive. — Tejomayananda
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
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
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
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
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
Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts. — Richard Holloway
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
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
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. — Juvenal
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. — Colman McCarthy
I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me. — Seve Ballesteros
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. — Bertrand Russell
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
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes. — Molly Ivins
He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes. — Fred Allen
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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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