- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confines Quotes
On the limits people live inside, and step past.
These quotes examine confines both physical and mental - a retired dancer still shaped by the ballet world's expectations, a political class boxed in by its own routines.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.
- Hemisphere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We're not just healing from what's been inflicted onto us as children... it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.
- Defensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
- Happy Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting to play different notes on your keyboard.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020