To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.
Confine yourself to the present.
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has had a few years under the circumscribed conditions of official routine, he generally find himself wholly out of touch with civil occupation.
And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
The only person who can confine you is yourself.
I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.
Confine your kissing to the irresistible.
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter.
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.
Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.
I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the weekend. I'm not going to be working while I'm with my son in the morning and in the evening.
