Quotes About Narrow

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

I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.

Our mental burka window is narrow because it didn't need to be any wider in order to assist our ancestors to survive.

Adrian's fragment also refers to the question of responsibility: whether there's a chain of it, or whether we draw the concept more narrowly. I'm all for drawing it narrowly. Sorry, no, you can't blame your dead parents, or having brothers and sisters, or not having them, or your genes, or society, or whatever - not in normal circumstances. Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary.

Sem educação, o mundo dos camponeses era dolorosamente estreito. Suas conversas em geral se concentravam em detalhes miúdos do dia-a-dia.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

How great in number are the little minded men

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

[Donald Trump] said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program, "My primary consultant is myself." While this may make consensus easy, the range of perspective is dangerously narrow.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

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

"Theocracy" has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny. Why seek to revive and rehabilitate a word of such a dismal connotation?

Hands, do what you're bid:Bring the balloon of the mindThat bellies and drags in the windInto its narrow shed.

We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone's parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

No wide road leads to God.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.