Narrow Quotes

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I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were… — John Marsden
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As… — Ernest Renan
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast. — William Shakespeare
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading… — Allan Bloom
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. — Daniel J. Boorstin
The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is… — Louis Kronenberger
My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything? — Saul Bellow
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour.… — John Ruskin
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement… — James Gleick
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained. — Kurt Vonnegut
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not… — Edmund Burke
No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow… — Lee Iacocca
Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche… — Andrea Dworkin
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always… — Rupert Murdoch
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the… — Florence King
It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force. — W. E. B. Du Bois
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and… — Manning Marable
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told… — Dean Norris

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