Confined Quotes

Confined Quote of the day

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of place. Im not confined to one sound.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.