#narrowed

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#angry #came #down #focus #got

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#broadened #brotherhood #into #live #narrowed

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#after #between #black #black and white #board

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#became #choices #dates #down #evenings

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#grateful #horizons #i #i am #narrowed

I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#down #expensive #four #i #kind

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#future #getting #getting married #i #i can

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#down #else #i #ignorance #life

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#been #between #closed #day #great