Quotes About Narrow

From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.

eyes, black and glistening like deep wells, narrow to two happy crescents

Competition in the current system is at the same time too broad, too narrow, and too local.

We're going nowhere, " Joan said grimly. Traffic on the narrow street was at a complete standstill. A chill settled in Sophie's stomach: it was the appalling fear that her brother was going to die. "Sidewalk," Nicholas said decisively. "Take it." "But the pedestrians—" "Can get out of the way. Use your horn.

Enframing describes our narrow, restricted understanding of ourselves and all things in existence in terms of 'resources' to be organized, enhanced and exploited efficiently.

For the most part, contemporary sorjuanistas downplay the role of religious faith and vocation in her life. This understanding of Sor Juana is flawed, I contend, for it is based on a very narrow definition of religious vocation. Too often, the diminishment of Sor Juana's vocation leads to downplaying the significance of Sor Juana's theological and philosophical writing.

The main issue with the traditional understanding of evangelism and apologetics is that they are too narrowly construed. The Bible teaches that evangelism is life (we are salt and light) and that the greatest apologetic is a life lived in obedience to God.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I'd forgotten it was these people I was coming back to: these views, that synagogue full of small, cramped minds, grown twisted through lack of sunlight.

That those who live narrow lives have only themselves to blame when they find themselves shocked.

Fifty yards farther, he turned off to the right up the rue des Marais, a narrow alley hardly a span wide and darker still—if that was possible. Strangely enough, the scent was not much stronger. It was only purer, and in its augmented purity, it took on an even greater power of attraction. Grenouille walked with no will of his own.

But for us mortals, empathy really is a spotlight. It's a spotlight that has a narrow focus, one that shines most brightly on those we love and gets dim for those who are strange or different or frightening.

Opportunities to get out of Nazi hands were widest in 1933–34 and again in 1938–39, but very narrow in the years in between or afterward.

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Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow passage between two vineyards, with walls on either side.

And the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or left.

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.