#confines

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices. ↗

— David Guterson

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I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within. ↗

— Jack Dee

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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

— Terry Josephson

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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.

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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

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You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies. ↗

— Richard Price

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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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