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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.
The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed Dark hair thick and wild and twisted like seaweed across the pillow... Bella's Lullaby
Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
We need to achieve a change in the media and in the way women are pressured to conform to a narrow image of beauty - it's a lofty ambition but it's important to make a start.
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.
The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.
I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.
When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.
Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy.
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!
The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.
I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to get out and be safe.
The simple-minded always look for something - if it's not pornography, it's DVDs or the Internet or video games - but I don't think there's anything inherently evil about Facebook.
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd recommend the pork pie. It has a narrow brim and a flat top.
The tone of political assessment has changed. And honestly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people has taken on a bit more of a violent and narrow approach.
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.
The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
God's plan for moving people from the broad road to the narrow road involves you.
I don't think the Democrats should think in narrow tactical terms about mid-term elections.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations, it damages the federal fabric mandated by the Constitution.
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.
Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him.
War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?
Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
