“ All those capabilities have been crippled. They are very restricted, very limited now. ”
- Pervez Musharraf- Copy
- 1.6K
“ In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
- 995
“ Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.3K
“ If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. ”
- Adam Ferguson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 786
“ With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
- 713
“ The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. ”
- Nicolaus Copernicus- Copy
- 2.1K
“ And the seasons, they go round and round,/ And the painted ponies go up and down./ We're captive on the carousel of time. ”
- Joni Mitchell- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives. ”
- Roger Lewis- Copy
- 927
“ HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.3K
“ A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. ”
- Jeremy Taylor- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. ”
- Mary Baker Eddy- Copy
- 1.2K
“ This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 287
“ No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
- 3K
“ So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 718
“ The human mind will not be confined to any limits. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Well there is always guys that don't get along. Whether that becomes public or not, that is another story. We don't have fights but guys don't get along sometimes. You're in this small building, a bus, you're on a plane, you are in some confined area with the same guys everyday for a long time with a lot of egos. ”
- Dusty Baker- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. ”
- Truman Capote- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. ”
- Richard Feynman- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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