Quotes About Confines

Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.

I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

The head has its confines. The head's got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

With time, he developed the instincts of a priest: evil existed; the task was to work productively within its confines.

There were worlds within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meaning. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.

There were world within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meanings. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.

O tribe of [spirits] and of men, if you are able to pass through the confines of heaven and earth, pass through them! You shall not pass through them except with [the Lord's] authority.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

It remains open to question whether anything that confines itself to the human sphere could ever attain anything but the subhuman.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

I've been worrying that we all live our lives in the confines of fear

We are the beauty of the world enveloped within the confines of a human structure: created out of love to love until the end of time.

I suppose it is the bane of mortality to suffer time as it narrows and confines, to know that never again will anything seem as wide, as open, as attainable as it did in our youth.

Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had become a powerful tradition.

The place was still there, present in the sunshine, instead of being hidden far away in darkness in the confines of some tragic opera.

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

The enhancements made them predators any way you looked at it. Hunters. They were good at their jobs. They looked like soldiers. Doctors. Officers. But they were much more than that and anyone in close confines with them felt the difference sooner rather than later.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.