Narrowing Quotes

46 quotes by 44 authors

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.… — Jerry Saltz
If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure… — Harlan Cleveland
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
O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart. — Louise Bogan
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were… — Elizabeth Bowen
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a… — Richard Dawkins
It's a mystery," Vin said, narrowing her eyes and smiling. "We Mistborn are incredibly mysterious." Elend paused." Um...I'm Mistborn too, Vin. That doesn't make any… — Brandon Sanderson
If heâ€™d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, Iâ€™d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he… — Karen Marie Moning
They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear… — Lauren Oliver
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head… — Mary Balogh
Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs… — Sarah Dessen
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. — David Lynch
There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not… — Maggie Stiefvater
Will's Father's gaze went immediately to Gabriel, and then to Cecily, his eyes narrowing. "And who is this gentlemen?" Will's grin widened. "Oh him," he… — Cassandra Clare
Do I look like Iâ€™ve been crying?â€™ I say. â€˜Hmm.â€™ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like heâ€™s inspecting my face. A smile tugs… — Veronica Roth
People tell us the countries that we'll have the most difficulty with are France and Japan. They say, 'Nothing you do in the rest of… — Joe Tripodi
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality… — John W. Gardner
Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to… — James A.C. Brown

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