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Quotes About Confines

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
~ Thomas Carlyle
As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying sin altogether, he merely confines it to a specially prepared region of his creation, a region known as hell, where he keeps it alive for an eternity. According to our alternative picture, however, God forgives sin for this very reason: in no other way could he oppose it with his entire being.
~ Thomas Talbott
Ender marveled at his mind, this small raman. How few humans were able to grasp this idea, or let it extend beyond the narrow confines of their tribe, their family, their nation.
~ Orson Scott Card
Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.
~ Rupert Wyatt
The good die young—but not always. The wicked prevail—but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
~ Helen Hayes
She looked around at the close confines of the NCD offices. They were cramped and untidy. No. They were worse than that. They had gone through cramped and untidy, paused briefly at small and shabby before ending up at pokey and damp.
~ Jasper Fforde
And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
~ William Shakespeare
Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The mistrust and resentment they brought with them, the way tribes feared anything new, anything from outside the camp's tight confines.
~ Ian Rankin
Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear
~ Ben Howard
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.
~ Michel Foucault
We should feel free to see a tension in Paul's thinking, a paradox as I mentioned earlier: what God has done in Jesus is deeply connected to Israel's story while at the same time breaking out of the confines of that story. As soon as we try to resolve that paradox in Paul we will misunderstand him.
~ Unknown