(221 quotes found)
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“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
“A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.”
Irish Proverb
“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
Christopher Fry
“Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
T.S. Eliot
“'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny”
William Archer
“At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend”
Arabian Proverb
“I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
Steve Jobs
“Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.”
Benjamin Disraeli