Confined Quotes - Page 10

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Jean Paul

Past, Reality, Two

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The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Edgar Friedenberg

Class, Wells, Examined Life

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On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

Bill Russell

Funny, Basketball, Sex

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And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

Mark Rothko

Wall, Space, Trying

Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.100, Yale University Press

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Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

William Rehnquist

Pregnancy, Typical, Different

General Elec. Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U.S. 125, 1976.

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Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Thomas M. Disch

Basketball, Player, Achievement

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Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.

Edsger Dijkstra

Learning, Osmosis, Design

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People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

Orison Swett Marden

Hands, Class, People

Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever.

Hannah Arendt

Forever, Done, Deeds

Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

Khalil Gibran

Wind, House, Bereavement

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case.

Martin Seligman

Believe, Thinking, Opposites

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Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Truman Capote

Views, Novelists, Toes

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Training should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more our people learn, the more useful they can be to our clients.

David Ogilvy

Agency, People, Training

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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.

Boyd K. Packer

Keys, Soul, Guilt

"Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Boyd K. Packer's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2010.

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Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Robert Ludlum

Games, Play, Gentleman

Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.1878, Bantam

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The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

James Madison

Government, United States, Charity

James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.431

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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

Eudora Welty

Character, Insightful, Trying

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When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them as waves of energy, which aren't confined to our hearts or limited by the physical barrier of our skin and bones. So clearly we're speaking to the world around us in each moment of every day through a language that has no words: the belief-waves of our hearts.

Gregg Braden

Heart, Expression, Creating

FaceBook post by Gregg Braden from Jun 16, 2010

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I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.

Mike Batt

Thinking, People, Twenties

Press launch of The Wombles Collection, www.tidybag.uk. November 2000.

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In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with confined strictures, the dance class is a safe place in which the women have choices and can improve their self-concept.

Judith Lynne Hanna

Self, Class, Choices

Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.198, Rowman Altamira

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Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Benjamin Disraeli

Beautiful, Country, Ocean

Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.392

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Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

Country, Weed, Men

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Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

Terence McKenna

Art, Philosophy, Moving

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Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

P. J. O'Rourke

Teacher, Writing, Thinking

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For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

War, Long, Political

Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff (1928). “A history of the ancient world”

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