(225 quotes found)
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus.”
William Shakespeare
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde
“Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
T.S. Eliot
“Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.”
John McCain
“'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny”
William Archer
“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
Christopher Fry
“It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.”
Christina Baldwin
“A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.”
Irish Proverb
“At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend”
Arabian Proverb