Confined Quotes - Page 14

• I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

  Hayley Mills

  Space, Horror

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 06, 2010.

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• Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

  Bertrand Russell

  Opinion, Sterilization, Should

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire”, Allen & Unwin

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• Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

  Nelson Eddy

  Song, Thinking, Doors

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• Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

  Ansel Adams

  Dream, Heart, Past

  Ansel Adams (1981). “Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio”

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• Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

  E. M. Forster

  Portraiture, Roger, Able

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• I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Affection, Understood

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Macbeth Play, Bounds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

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• If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

  Hugh Prather

  Ends, Process, Ifs

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.31, Bantam

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• Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

  A. Powell Davies

  People, Evil, Religion

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• It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Eye, Ideas, Imagination

  "The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Eric Shanes, p. 23, 2012.

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• I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.

  George Whitefield

  Believe, People, Religion

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• One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Would Be, Assembly

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

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• God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Dogma, Spots, Universal

  Mary Baker Eddy (1968). “Christian Science Sentinel”

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• While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.

  Paul Brunton

  Peace, Truth, Mind

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• Confined to common life thy numbers flow,
  And neither soar too high nor sink too low;
  There strength and ease in graceful union meet,
  Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet;
  Yet powerful to abash the from of crime
  And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme.
  [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri,
  Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores
  Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Sweet, Powerful, Numbers

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• I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

  Stella Benson

  Writing, Heart, Luxury

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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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• I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

  Mary Kingsley

  Lines, Facts, Opinion

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.9, Routledge

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Thinking, People, Ladders

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Men, Player

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Death, Angel, Men

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.305

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• I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

  Josephine Jacobsen

  Would Be, Closets, Distracted

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• I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Jail, House, Boss

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• The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Attitude, Twilight, Prejudice

  The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960

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