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Narrow waists and narrow minds go together. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Narrow streets are beautiful because you are closer to the realities! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ. -- Oswald Chambers
Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity. -- Price Pritchett
Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat. -- Courtney Schafer
The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. -- Richard Flanagan
I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat. -- Elinor Wylie
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others. -- Honore de Balzac
Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it. -- Tyler Perry
I'm going to sail up the Narrow Sea all the way to the Weeping Water. I'm going to march on the Dreadfort. I'm going to find my little brother. And I'm going to bring him home. -- Yara
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. -- T. S. Eliot
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. -- Alexander Pope
Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism. -- Said Musa
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. -- Henry David Thoreau
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. -- Niels Bohr
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. -- Teresa of Avila
Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD. -- Joe Rogan
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion. -- Oscar Fernandes
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. -- Charles de Gaulle
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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. -- Florence Nightingale
I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects. -- Felicia Day
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. -- Nadine Gordimer
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. -- Karl Marx
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Pierre de Fermat
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. -- Barney Frank
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. -- Madonna Ciccone
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. -- Pierre de Fermat
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. -- Elliott Abrams
The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. -- Bill Kristol
But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about. -- Tim Tebow
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. -- Emilio Estevez
There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life. -- Satya Nadella
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree. -- Annie Besant
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Music dissolves the straight and narrow. -- Mason Cooley
Politics is but a narrow field. -- Henry David Thoreau
Whispering makes a narrow place narrower. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. -- Thubten Yeshe
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide. -- Alan Hirsch
You narrow hope when you define it... -- Barbara Hambly
Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense. -- James Salter
A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides -- Emily Dickinson
Good things happen when you narrow your focus -- Al Ries
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. -- Mark Twain
To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly. -- Jude Morgan
In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind. -- Glen Cook
Your views are as narrow as your tie. -- Bernard Herrmann
We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness. -- Mick Jagger
Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context. -- Frank Snepp
The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-. -- Emily Dickinson
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. -- John F. Kennedy
In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely. -- Mort Sahl
We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes. -- Phil Bredesen
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place. -- Samuel Johnson
It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy. -- Cameron Esposito
Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place. -- George Herbert
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. -- William Hazlitt
Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room. -- Mason Cooley
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds. -- Ernest Hemingway
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. -- Charles Caleb Colton
A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together. -- Celia Green
I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow. -- Drew Brees
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path. -- Tommy Lasorda
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. -- Lillian Hellman
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love. -- Andre Gide
Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it. -- Dalai Lama
Your path is not narrow... so you can't mess it up. -- Esther Hicks
The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become. -- Lin Yutang
Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded? -- Paul Frank Baer
I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking. -- Dalai Lama
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have a very narrow view of what is going on. -- Daniel Kahneman
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. -- Aldous Huxley
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! -- Matthew Arnold
In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles. -- James Cook
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. -- Jimmy Carter
If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions. -- Starhawk
We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down. -- Miranda Lambert
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. -- Bruno Schulz
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. -- Juvenal
Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. -- Kamala Markandaya
A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be. -- Will Rogers
Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population. -- David Price
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow -- Richard Wagner
Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. -- Fred Willard
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. -- Marva Collins
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. -- Friedrich Schiller
Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind. -- Rupert Spira
Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus. -- Gary W. Keller
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person. -- Zig Ziglar
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. -- Avicenna
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through. -- Bob Dylan
I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes. -- Steven Hall
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file. -- Sam Snead
Believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces. -- Anis Mojgani
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas. -- Napoleon Hill
Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. -- Thomas Gray
I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. -- James Baker
Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact. -- Santosh Kalwar
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. -- Umberto Eco
I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. -- James Baker
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity. -- Jane Porter
I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow... -- Judith Weir
I don't think the Democrats should think in narrow tactical terms about mid-term elections. -- Barack Obama
THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus. -- Al Ries
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. -- Samuel Johnson
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow... -- Wassily Kandinsky

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