Narrow Quotes

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Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should… — George Orwell
I am driving an unfamiliar vehicle down a narrow road I've never seen before. Do you really want to be pissing me off right now? — Jennifer Rardin
Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord… — Chinua Achebe
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise… — Hermann Hesse
And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are… — Michael Jackson
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men… — Hunter S. Thompson
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into… — Rabindranath Tagore
Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.... — Isabel Allende
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in… — Cormac McCarthy
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want… — Haruki Murakami
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow… — Hunter S. Thompson
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within… — Saint Augustine
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow… — John Steinbeck
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try… — Sri Aurobindo
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,… — George Orwell
Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small… — Christopher Isherwood
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But… — John Ashbery
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each… — Algernon Blackwood
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others. — Honore de Balzac
I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things… — David Eddings
Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along… — Megan Whalen Turner
Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet… — Robin Jones Gunn

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