Confines Quotations

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

We're somehow confined to our name, the Beach Boys; it confines you to a certain image, but there's so much there that's so rich.

We found that, in animal models, injecting chemotherapy into the milk ducts confines most of the drug to the breasts, leaving other tissues unharmed.

Yahoo Go allows us to free the best of what the Internet has to offer from the confines of the browser and provides consumers fast and easy access to the essential products and services they know and love.

None of us do this for the money. But, I've asked for this to be placed on the agenda because I think it's timely and it needs to be approved within the confines of the budget process.

Nothing about Kathleen Willey is in the two articles of impeachment and if we were to go beyond the confines of the articles of impeachment and start bringing before us anybody who might have an allegation, before it had been checked and rechecked, we would make a mockery of the process,

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

From the cozy confines of 24 Sussex, the Prime Minister continues to dither on tax relief for Canadians,

What we have been seeing these days is not quite as encouraging as what we used to believe that in the modern world it is nearly impossible to interact socially and culturally only with those who think alike. Longing for the comforting of sameness may appears providing some safety and security. It confines ourselves into divisions that blocks our minds. In the end, collectively we become unsafe and insecure.

He just didn't do the things we wanted him to do within the confines of our system. When you don't play within the system, you're going to struggle.

Jon is playing a different kind of basketball than he's ever played in his life. He's guarding out on the perimeter, he's put in positions to handle the ball on the perimeter. He's not just within the confines of the paint, where he's spent a lot of his time and has dominated by doing so.

I think it's a strong opportunity for team bonding, a chance to get away, away from the friendly confines (of home) and just be with your group and not have too many distractions.

Our board has been very consistent and aggressive in its opposition to the expansion of gambling outside the existing confines of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

Playing Western Mennonite at our place is an advantage. They're a good basketball team. But we'll be in friendly confines and I think we can compete with them. Everybody has a shot on any given night and if we want to get to Pendleton, we've got to win two games to get there.

Somehow in the confines in his mind, he started putting together this dream, which is how he described it to his peer group. The police didnt want to talk about the dream, and the next thing, it was a fact. In his initial statements, it was a dream, he wasnt sure about it and they filled in the blanks for him.

We have a very difficult job as police officers. Day in and day out, we confront dangerous people. It's easy to Monday morning quarterback from the confines of your living room. It's quite a different situation when you're out here on the street having to deal with it.

The government's plan confines Yellowstone grizzlies to an area too small to keep bears here and healthy in the long term.

To solve complex biological problems, scientists must move beyond the confines of their own discipline and explore new organizational models for team science.

There is always going to be some situation that doesn't fall within the confines of the ordinance.

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.

What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you can just sort of put it down and send it out there, and you can do it all in the confines of your room, without any actual contact.

Even if the issues discussed transcend the confines of the text of the original truce, they cannot be construed as amendments.

And we find people who can improvise in character and create a character that is totally tangible and real and still get laughs, but you're getting laughs totally within the confines of your character.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Anything that happens within the confines of our program, it has been our policy to keep it in-house. Indeed, I will always do that.

A novice is someone who is no longer in the safe confines of a peaceful life, but has not yet achieved great insight into how to live in peace.

This is an issue that will come up in the next generation in Four Corners. In Four Corners, it's going to be particularly difficult to incorporate. Under Florida law, a city has to be in one county, and Four Corners is in the confines of four counties.

They are a very good team. They play a high-tempo style of play. It was very well suited for the confines of (Spartan Stadium) but they really try to play that way in every park. Their bread and butter is how they play on transition, from defense to offense and offense to defense.

There was one thing which I thought was tremendous fun, namely finding as many angles as possible within the confines of a single room.

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World.

That's really fascinating. It's method acting gone wild ù a character who's not only reading lines and performing in the show but also continuing to perform outside the confines of the screen.

This is just what we needed. We needed to be home in the friendly confines of our arena, in our city and at our school. This is only one game, but its a special game for our school and our players.

In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines of 'search' and into the far more ambitious world of 'experience.' As in - every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.

You couldn't stop it that way. But with social distancing, you might be able to slow it down, manage it within the confines of the medical system.

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the ''outlaw,'' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

The cars passed postrace inspection, ... The shock absorbers themselves, after being tested and disassembled and everything, all of the parts and pieces were well within the confines of the rule book. However, the shock build -- the assembly of the parts and what the shock it intended to do -- it's not within the spirit and the intent of what our shock absorber rules surround.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well