Quotes of: Narrowness Keyword

The narrower the cage, the sweeter the liberty.

German

Who is narrow minded cannot be bighearted.

Chinese

It's a bad bridge that is narrower than the stream.

German

Dangerous enemies will meet again in narrow streets.

Chinese

Keep your ears wider and your mouth narrower.

Russian

A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.

Irish

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

A bush-warbler, Coming to the verandah-edge, Left its droppings On the rice-cakes.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Konrad Lorenz

Searching for the scent of the early plum, I found it by the eaves Of a proud storehouse.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

Very Narrow Bridge

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Florence Nightingale

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Ben Okri

I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second you were born, the t...

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?

The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together [With This Road CD by Jars of Clay]

The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

As they made their way to the coast, he bemoaned the hotel trade in the manner, Dorrigo felt, that those who love what they do bemoan their passion the most.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North