Narrow Quotes

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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and… — John Muir
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. — Richard Steele
The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a… — Walt Disney
The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-. — Emily Dickinson
In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts.… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary. — Georges St-Pierre
As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless… — Viggo Mortensen
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was… — Jonathan Franzen
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief. — William F. Schulz
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee… — Dan Gelber
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on… — Edward Abbey
Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which… — Miroslav Volf
It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like,… — Carol Rifka Brunt
If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand,… — Helen Keller
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they… — Jean de la Bruyere
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon… — William Hazlitt
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that… — John Dryden
As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates me from people… — Deborah Feldman
If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of… — James Freeman Clarke
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever… — Karl Marx
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it… — Oliver Goldsmith
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to… — Felix Frankfurter

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