Top 167 Confine Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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.

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

The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.

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.

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

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

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

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.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Confine your kissing to the irresistible.

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

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.

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.

Embrace your colour, heritage, whatever you want, but don't let it confine you. Just live without labels.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

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.

I ventured into cinema after theatre because I didn't want to confine myself to just one auditorium. I wanted the whole world to talk about me.

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

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

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

Confine yourself to the present.

The only person who can confine you is yourself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

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.

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

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.

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

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.