Straitened Quotes

#1. Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

Winston Churchill

#2. If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius

#3. There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

Cherie Lunghi

#4. To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

Saib Tabrizi

#5. Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

Jerry Bridges

#6. Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.

Thomas A Kempis

#7. I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

Neel Mukherjee

#8. Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adler

#9. Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Greg Bryk

#10. I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

Roone Arledge

#11. What do normal people do when they're together?

David Wong

#12. The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed.

Abraham H. Maslow

#13. Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.

Max Anders

#14. Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

Jimmy Breslin

#15. I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or perhaps also sometimes repels. You move away. I moved towards it, I couldn't help it.

Sebastian Barry

#16. The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake;

W. H. Auden

#17. I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing, and directing lead to five movies, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

Tom McCarthy

#18. I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

Sarah Rees Brennan