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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

Politics, War, Writing

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Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius

Yourself, Present

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen Hawking

Human, Attention, Spirit

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles de Lint

Music, Mind, Heart

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.
Alice Cooper

Happen, Whole, Whatever

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
Nancy Pelosi

Dreams, Work, Best

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young

Angels, Angel, Grave

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
George Berkeley

Long, Words, Thoughts

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
Alastair Campbell

Love, Good, Sports

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
Seth Grahame-Smith

Science, Yourself, Tell

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
Kelly Miller

Friend, Days, Early

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Nassau William Senior

Happiness, Respect, Political

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
Oscar Peterson

Speak, Personal, Themselves

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
William Wiley

Yourself, Why, Speak

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
Adam Ferguson

Work, Perfect, Attention

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.
John Cleveland

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.
Edith Rogers

Work, Women, Saying

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.
Juan Carlos

Cannot, Europe, Garden

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