A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The natural man doesn't automatically think of doing good. It isn't natural. How many people worry about the car behind them or the person below them? The natural man just doesn't do it. For us, however, these promptings enlarge our awareness of other people's needs and then prod us to act accordingly.
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children. . . A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.
Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind hisher turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesn’t mean careless. It is not that you don’t care about others, not that you don’t have compassion or are unfriendly. Carefree is being really simple, from the inside. Dignity is not conceit but rather what shines forth from this carefree confidence.
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something. . . for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.
Getting up at 6 A. M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
You narrow hope when you define it.
Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.
If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.