Narrow Quotes

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Your views are as narrow as your tie.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.