Quotes about Confined

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. Votes: 2

The human mind will not be confined to any limits. Votes: 2

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. Votes: 2

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. Votes: 2

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. Votes: 2

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. Votes: 2

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. Votes: 2

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses. Votes: 2

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Votes: 2

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology. Votes: 2

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. Votes: 2

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind. Votes: 2

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. Votes: 2

In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us. Votes: 2

When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity. Votes: 2

Truth cannot be structured or confined. Votes: 0

Thinking is movement confined to the brain Votes: 0

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom. Votes: 0

False praise is always confined to the great. Votes: 0

Life is not confined to a four inch screen. Votes: 0

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Votes: 0

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin. Votes: 0

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead. Votes: 0

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. Votes: 0

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself. Votes: 0

There is no darkness like that of a confined space. Votes: 0

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus. Votes: 0

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! Votes: 0

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. Votes: 0

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established. Votes: 0

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. Votes: 0

When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized. Votes: 0

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. Votes: 0

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class. Votes: 0

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation. Votes: 0

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self. Votes: 0

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos. Votes: 0

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. Votes: 0

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. Votes: 0

If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. Votes: 0

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water. Votes: 0

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. Votes: 0

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex. Votes: 0

People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color. Votes: 0

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Votes: 0

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it. Votes: 0

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. Votes: 0

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. Votes: 0

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. Votes: 0

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe. Votes: 0

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. Votes: 0

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. Votes: 0

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective Votes: 0

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative. Votes: 0

Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all. Votes: 0

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white. Votes: 0

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes. Votes: 0

What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them? Votes: 0

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. Votes: 0

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. Votes: 0

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. Votes: 0

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. Votes: 0

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. Votes: 0

The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined. Votes: 0

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total. Votes: 0

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. Votes: 0

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. Votes: 0

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present Votes: 0

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles. Votes: 0

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history. Votes: 0

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible. Votes: 0

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? Votes: 0

Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom. Votes: 0

Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy. Votes: 0

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head? Votes: 0

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. Votes: 0

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse. Votes: 0

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet. Votes: 0

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates. Votes: 0

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. Votes: 0

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability Votes: 0

Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. Votes: 0

Unless you realize that there is a sun beyond comprehension of this limited mind... the life shall remain confined within a Box... Votes: 0

There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind. Votes: 0

This card is sent to cheer you As you're confined to bed I'm sure it'll feel all worthwhile In the happier days ahead. Votes: 0

What if Science is God's way of reminding us that he is greater than the stories and dogma we have confined him to? Votes: 0

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them. Votes: 0

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. Votes: 0

The Bernie Sanders phenomenon shows that it's not confined to Republicans. There is a general sentiment that America is on the wrong track. Votes: 0

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. Votes: 0

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. Votes: 0

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life. Votes: 0

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.' Votes: 0

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience. Votes: 0

My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. Votes: 0

Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views. Votes: 0

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well. Votes: 0

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose. Votes: 0

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society. Votes: 0

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Votes: 0

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets. Votes: 0

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space. Votes: 0

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt. Votes: 0

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men. Votes: 0

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement. Votes: 0

Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush. Votes: 0

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. Votes: 0

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision. Votes: 0

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. Votes: 0

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses Votes: 0

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame. Votes: 0

In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it. Votes: 0

I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of place. Im not confined to one sound. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species. Votes: 0

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry. Votes: 0

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters. Votes: 0

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed. Votes: 0

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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[. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take. Votes: 0

The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined. Votes: 0

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. Votes: 0

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists. Votes: 0

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. Votes: 0

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules. Votes: 0

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings. Votes: 0

Photo is confined to borders by all side, but memory zeal out to extend happiness even to the darkest corner of your life. a good snapshot bring out colour in your life. Votes: 0

I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar. Votes: 0

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. Votes: 0

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words. Votes: 0

Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ's blood, Christ's gospel, Christ's church, and Christ's expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays "˜bottled up', confined to the historical skins of Palestine. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency. Votes: 0

Mother energy is universal. It is the large expression of the sacred feminine that comes from spirit. It is embodied in all our biological mothers, but its not limited or confined to them. Votes: 0

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home. Votes: 0

Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly and yet still returning through the infinite extent of China. Votes: 0

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that. Votes: 0

Every soul confined to a concentration camp of sin and guilt has a key to the gate. The adversary cannot hold them if they know how to use it. The key is labeled Repentance." Votes: 0

I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex. Votes: 0

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age. Votes: 0

Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father. Votes: 0

Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things. Votes: 0

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation. Votes: 0

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Votes: 0

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0