Quotes of: Confines Keyword

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Mike Pence

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

Charles Inglis

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.

Elon Musk

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

Edward Young

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Italo Calvino

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage

Amelia Earhart

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.

Edith Rogers

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Chapterhouse: Dune

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Buddha

I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box.

Just Kids

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

There But for The

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

The Prophet

And the upside to being confined to home was that it gave me plenty of time to continue reading.

Circle of Nine: Beltany

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.

J.D. Leisher

We are the beauty of the world enveloped within the confines of a human structure: created out of love to love for all of eternity.

J.D. Leisher

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Hugh Mackay

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

V.S. Naipaul

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

Oscar Peterson

Sometimes the boxes we’re put in fit. Other times, we find ourselves shoved into places too confining for our growing sense of self.

Sarah Hackley