Confines Quotes

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch. View quote
William Hazlitt
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. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. View quote
Italo Calvino
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity. View quote
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world. View quote
Emil Cioran
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic. (Sun Myung Moon)
The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue. View quote
Albert Camus
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. View quote
Jaron Lanier
You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies. View quote
Richard Price
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. View quote
Chris Vance
What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves. View quote
Craig Kelly
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? View quote
Evangelista Torricelli
The lights are going out all over Europe. Anyone who thinks or speaks individually is at risk. Freedom-loving citizens who criticize Islam, or even merely suggest that there is a relationship between Islam and crime or honour killing, must suffer and are threatened or criminalized. Those who speak the truth are in danger. The lights are going out all over Europe. Everywhere the Orwellian thought police are at work, on the lookout for thought crimes everywhere, casting the populace back within the confines where it is allowed to think. View quote
Geert Wilders
I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
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. View quote
David Guterson
And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty. (Leonard Cohen)
Tatlin does not transcend the confines of Cubism. View quote
Kazimir Malevich
Love is that orbit of the restless soul Whose circle grazes the confines of space, Bounding within the limits of its race Utmost extremes. View quote
George Henry Boker
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. View quote
Gary Zukav
And amid the thunderous roar of a world in collision WE, ON THE LAST STAGE OF THE PATH TO SUPREMATISM BLASTED ASIDE THE OLD WORK OF ART LIKE A BEING OF FLESH AND BLOOD AND TURNED IT INTO A WORLD FLOATING IN SPACE. WE CARRIED BOTH PICTURE AND VIEWER OUT BEYOND THE CONFINES OF THIS SPHERE AND IN ORDER TO COMPREHEND IT FULLY THE VIEWER MUST CIRCLE LIKE A PLANET ROUND THE PICTURE WHICH REMAINS IMMOBILE IN THE CENTER. The empty phrase 'art for art's sake' had already been wiped out. View quote
El Lissitsky