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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in… — Brian D. McLaren
Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists. — Haruki Murakami
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man. — Anton Chekhov
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. — James G. Frazer
Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all… — Dale Carnegie
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would… — James Beard
Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't actually kill you… — Mira Grant
Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary… — Anne Sexton
He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them — Mercedes Lackey
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through… — Charles Dickens
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,… — Jack London
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. — Steig Larsson
If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India,… — Aung San Suu Kyi
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick. — Ron Rash
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read… — Booker T. Washington
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. — Lillian Hellman
I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like… — Veronica Roth
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such… — Walter Isaacson
He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went… — Derek Landy
Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring. — Abbi Glines
For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed. — Kenneth Grahame
This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a… — Virchand Gandhi
Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with… — Ilona Andrews
Sean pushes up to his feet and stands there. I look at his dirty boots. Now I've offended him, I think. He says, "Other people… — Maggie Stiefvater
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures… — Jane Goodall

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