Narrow Quotes

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

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.

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 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.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

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.

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.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

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.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

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.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

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

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

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.

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.

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.