Narrowed Quotes

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...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the… — John Cheever
We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere… — Edward Snowden
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen… — Jeremy Irons
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the… — Girolamo Savonarola
It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like,… — Carol Rifka Brunt
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. — Bell Hooks
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. — Lyndon B. Johnson
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time… — Jonathan Kozol
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I… — Hedy Lamarr
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day… — Lester B. Pearson
All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that. — Tiger Woods
Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do,… — Gene Wolfe
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed… — Steve Martin
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept… — Franz Kafka
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are… — Haruki Murakami
Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang… — Megan Whalen Turner
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Okay. Enough." I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. "This is happening. So you need to go… — Sarah Dessen

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