Confined Quotes - Page 16

• Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

  Robert Breault

  Skulls, Mind, Wonder

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• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Clouds, Wind

  CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

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• The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.

  T. H. White

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.120, Penguin

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• The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

  Learned Hand

  Inspiration, Important, Routine

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Lightning

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2811, Delphi Classics

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• My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.

  James Boswell

  Simple, Next, Firsts

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• Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

  Robert Breault

  Destiny, Self, Color

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• In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fear, Men, Evil

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Political, Challenges

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• Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cells, Duration, Prisoner

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

  Homer

  Zoos, Gone, Dinosaurs

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• I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Long, Dogma

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.226, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Success, Business

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed up to now struggle on to To see hopes Even in a black, confined world

  Kanon Wakeshima

  Hope, Believe, Struggle

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• Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

  Paul McDonald

  Creative, Should, Innovative

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• Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Passion, Men, Feelings

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Mean, Men, Perfection

  Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

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• It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

  Terry Eagleton

  Sympathy, Lying, Writing

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

  Kate Millett

  Women, Exercise, Animal

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.119, Columbia University Press

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• My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

  Diane Abbott

  Country, Gun, Cities

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• But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Usual, Atoms

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru's body and to serve them accordingly.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Selfless, World, Body

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• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

  William Greider

  Rights, Done, Benefits

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• An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

  Paul Davies

  Competition, Would Be, Earth

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• The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Stars, Knowledge, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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