Quotes About Confined

The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

Every persons are bounded within a secrete line.

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government

Trapped like a trap in a trap

Archie was getting seriously tired of being underground all the time.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.

An idea occurs in the mind, where it is confined and useless. An idea lives when it leaves the mind.

The ceiling in the mess was very low, not even eight feet. You can feel the weight of the West Wing above your head, and with the the weight of American memory.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

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It seemed to him that something which had always contained and confined him was broken, that he was loosed from it for ever; but whether he came forth into freedom or exile was something he could not determine.

As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Luckily, I am not at all claustrophobic.

I'm very claustrophobic.

I don't get claustrophobic.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

When he was taking his coat off I had to stand back so as not to get socked in the eye with his arms swinging around, and I don't cotton to a guy with that sort of an attitude towards his fellowmen in confined spaces. Particularly I think they ought to be kept out of elevators, but I'm not fond of them anywhere.

But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound inTo saucy doubts and fears.

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. — David Whyte, "Sweet Darkness," Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems , eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.