Narrow Quotes

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I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… — Jeanette Winterson
The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very… — Orhan Pamuk
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would… — John Wyndham
I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet… — Christopher Isherwood
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment… — H P Lovecraft
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very… — Julian Gough
Whispering makes a narrow place narrower. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality — Amartya Sen
It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and… — Charlotte Bronte
Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic… — Jim Wallis
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves… — Marilynne Robinson
A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement… — Pico Iyer
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. — Richard Dawkins
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you- — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking… — Douglas Coupland
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. — Douglas Coupland
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that… — Bob Dylan
When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away. — Masashi Kishimoto
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… — Paul Verlaine

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