Narrow Quotes

836 Narrow quotes by 671 unique authors

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. — Ian Mcewan
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse… — Ahdaf Soueif
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have… — David Foster Wallace
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila… — Khaled Hosseini
[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or… — Henri Nouwen
Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not… — Franz Kafka
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the… — Mark Levin
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we… — Naomi Shihab Nye
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would… — Isabel Allende
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees,… — Orson Scott Card
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought… — Robert Frost
Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it.… — John Green
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the… — Arthur C. Clarke
L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who… — Dennis Lehane
Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when this kind of… — Sarah Dessen
The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could… — Confucius
Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it… — C.S. Lewis
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more… — Paul Auster
By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as… — Diana Wynne Jones
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door. — Frank Herbert
Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss… — Charlaine Harris

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