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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.
There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.
I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.
The narrow path that 'Uncommon' people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.
When you don't have diversity in the creative process, you inevitably end up with a single, narrow perspective in the output.
I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.
Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design.
I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.
Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.
Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
The margins for restaurants to make money are very, very narrow. It's a tough business, and to be a chef is a little bit masochistic.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to get out and be safe.
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
E-sports used to be this niche thing. We knew it was really cool, but outside of a very narrow audience you really didn't get a lot of exposure.
Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.