Words matter. These are the best Confines Quotes from famous people such as Tim Wise, Chris Vance, David Kirsch, Jean de la Bruyere, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent’s faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.
I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.
I’ve had to focus on the fact that a lot more people don’t want to work out in the confines of a gym anymore.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn’t do that within the confines of a bigger company.
Jill Eisenstadt’s comic second novel, ‘Kiss Out,’ is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.
Oh yeah, I’d love to be a comedian. I’ve done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I’m not thinking about the camera and that it’s second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.
With talent so stacked on a project like ‘Proximity’ and so many intense locations explored, it’s almost impossible to showcase every highlight in the confines of one film.
For all of the diversity in ‘Scandal,’ no one else would be sitting in a room wearing a T-shirt and chains and call a Southern white Republican president a ‘boy.’ And it’s those kinds of things that Rowan has the freedom to say that nobody else could say within the confines of the show.
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington – the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city’s avatars of centrism and continuity – Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
You can’t take a character anywhere they don’t expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don’t have that option.
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
Music doesn’t have to sit within the confines of pop structure, you can really make stuff that’s more visual.
I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class… I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.
We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it’s interesting to play different notes on your keyboard.
My musical inclinations are fine and dandy within the confines of my ears and my earphones but don’t sit well with others.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
The true exercise of freedom is – cannily and wisely and with grace – to move inside what space confines – and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
For me, what I learned is that I went for a long time without making music when I was married, and I think some of that was because – it was a little bit unfortunate – but it didn’t make sense in the confines of my marriage for me to be the musician and the writer, which requires a lot of focus and attention.
When ‘The Bell Curve’ came out, I’d have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
It’s incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We’re not just healing from what’s been inflicted onto us as children… it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.
In short, Now is Google’s attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives – moving well beyond the siloed confines of ‘search’ and into the far more ambitious world of ‘experience.’ As in – every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.
Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That’s an historical fact.
At some point, most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we’re already good at. This confines us and stifles us.
A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn’t seated in the confines of your home.
Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.
I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you’re not actually doing it. It’s entertainment. You know that you’re in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.
A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
Like me, most of my fellow artists struggle within the confines of what is ‘politically correct.’
At one level you’re condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.
The problem with my peers is they don’t understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we’ve not done anything, we’ve not really struggled to change the culture at all.