Narrower Quotes

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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part… — George Eliot
Whispering makes a narrow place narrower. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater… — Tom Robbins
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a… — Khalil Gibran
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature… — Zhuangzi
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith… — Henry David Thoreau
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely… — Robert A. Heinlein
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 like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors,… — Diane Ackerman
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions,… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Walking on someone's shoes isn't easy. Sometimes it's narrower, sometimes it's bigger. Then we understand how it feels of being them. — Dhikachu
Laughter certainly is very special. Your whole body laughs. Each atom, each cell of your body laughs, participates in it. I have always been against… — Unknown Author
When you gossip, your brain becomes smaller, your mind becomes narrower, and you become stupider. — Saramae
The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this… — Artur Davis

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