Narrow

Famous quotes containing the word narrow:

    Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 7:14.

    From the Sermon on the Mount.

    Less than five hundred souls inhabit the three quaint streets and the few narrow by-lanes and scattered farmsteads that constitute this small, decaying watering-place which may, indeed, be called a “backwater of life” without disrespect to its natives who possess, to this day, a salty individuality of their own.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)