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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness--presently
Every bed is narrow.
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.
Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.
I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
I do it for myself and for like-minded people. Half the time I don't know why I make what I do. I'd do this if no one was listening. I'm stuck. I've got the curse.
I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.
Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.
Though I'm a very broad-minded girl, I don't think any parent would appreciate their daughter stripping on-screen.
What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
I met Bobby Fischer in 1993 when he moved to Europe. I have mixed feelings about it. He was an idol, but not a healthy minded man.
My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.
Facebook's greatest strength - its ability to identify and connect like-minded people - is also a major vulnerability.
I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.
I'm so fed up with being told that I'm a bad person because I don't subscribe to the same exact narrow views [Christians] have.
A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.
I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.
I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.
I never minded stories of the beautiful women associated with Dilip saab. I had placed my entire trust in him.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.
My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.
Surround yourself with like-minded, strong people, use your voices and choose courage over fear.
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
Having life taken away from you for a little while forces you to be more open-minded and to go live.
Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.
I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.
Western Mosul is the historic heart of one of the oldest cities in the world. Its narrow streets and alleyways are impassable for armored vehicles.
The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.
And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
