Quotes about Confine

Confine yourself to the present. Votes: 4

Confine your kissing to the irresistible. Votes: 3

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. Votes: 3

Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover. Votes: 3

Confine yourself to the present. - Marcus Aurelius Votes: 3

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Votes: 2

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. Votes: 2

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. Votes: 2

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home. Votes: 2

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. Votes: 2

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan. Votes: 2

Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook. Votes: 2

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. Votes: 2

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. Votes: 2

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. Votes: 2

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum. Votes: 2

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy. Votes: 2

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with. Votes: 2

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. Votes: 2

My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution. Votes: 2

I advise all of the entrepreneurs that I know to attend at least one entrepreneurship event every week. The worst thing an entrepreneur can do is to confine his or herself to a cubby hole. Votes: 2

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor. Votes: 2

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. Votes: 2

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen. Votes: 2

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore. Votes: 2

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader. Votes: 2

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment. Votes: 2

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild. Votes: 2

The only person who can confine you is yourself. Votes: 0

Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter. Votes: 0

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. Votes: 0

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons. Votes: 0

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden. Votes: 0

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects. Votes: 0

If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices. Votes: 0

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. Votes: 0

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality. Votes: 0

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them. Votes: 0

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free. Votes: 0

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words. Votes: 0

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. Votes: 0

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers! Votes: 0

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. Votes: 0

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. Votes: 0

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. Votes: 0

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free Votes: 0

I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region. Votes: 0

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. Votes: 0

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. Votes: 0

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it. Votes: 0

I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment. Votes: 0

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out. Votes: 0

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows. Votes: 0

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky. Votes: 0

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. Votes: 0

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. Votes: 0

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another. Votes: 0

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping. Votes: 0

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it. Votes: 0

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism. Votes: 0

If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for Votes: 0

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility. Votes: 0

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy. Votes: 0

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway. Votes: 0

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway." Votes: 0

It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former. Votes: 0

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled. Votes: 0

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home. Votes: 0

Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end. Votes: 0

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me. Votes: 0

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality. Votes: 0

I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run. Votes: 0

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel. Votes: 0

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people. Votes: 0

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with. Votes: 0

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. Votes: 0

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be. Votes: 0

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant. Votes: 0

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Votes: 0

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies. Votes: 0

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Votes: 0

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself. Votes: 0

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther. Votes: 0

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it. Votes: 0

When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves. Votes: 0

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. Votes: 0

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities. Votes: 0