Confined Quotes

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

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

False praise is always confined to the great.

If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

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

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

Life is not confined to a four inch screen.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.