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Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world. -- Haruki Murakami
Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. -- John Dryden
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. -- William Davenant
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. -- Thomas Jefferson
What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense. -- Warren G. Bennis
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. -- John Stuart Mill
I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Your world is as big as you make it.I know, for I used to abideIn the narrowest nest in a corner,My wings pressing close to my side. -- Georgia Douglas Johnson
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. -- Martin Van Buren
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step. -- Angela Davis
I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays. -- Jesse Eisenberg
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest. -- George Eliot
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. -- Irving Kaufman
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. -- Irving Kaufman
For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free. -- Amin Maalouf

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