Narrow Quotes

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We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's… — Robert Baden-Powell
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade… — Booker T. Washington
It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in… — Mark Twain
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels,… — Charles Dickens
Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles… — Richard Hornby
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell
Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything. All your conditionings… — Nirmala Srivastava
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of… — George Orwell
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of… — John Ruskin
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. — Friedrich Schiller
The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through… — Ernest Hemingway
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow… — William Penn
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution… — Ronald Fisher
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is… — Miguel de Cervantes
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would… — Booker T. Washington
If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South… — Warren Moon
Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key… — Douglas Conant
Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective. — Nancy Duarte
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what… — Krista Tippett
We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait… — David A. Bednar
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow… — Joan Didion
My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM. — Waris Ahluwalia
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path. — Tommy Lasorda

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