Sarah Rees Brennan

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

Irish Writer

Laura van den Berg

In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening in new and surprising ways - that was a quality I strived to capture, with the hope that the reader would be willing to follow me.

American Writer

Sebastian Pinera

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

Chilean Statesman

Helen Hayes

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

American Actress

Joseph Addison

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

English Writer

Johnny Depp

When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.

American Actor

Imtiaz Ali

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

Indian Director

Richard Price

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

American Novelist

Terry Josephson

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

American Businessman

Used when physical areas are restricted, such as rooms or buildings.

Physical Boundaries

Can also apply to limiting ideas, feelings, or more abstract things.

Metaphorical Limits

Implies being kept in a place without the freedom to leave, often for health or legal reasons.

Compulsory Restraint

Usually a temporary condition, often until recovery or a change in circumstances.

Temporary State

Stresses the need to stay relevant to a particular subject or context.

Focus and Relevance

A polite way to tell someone not to stray off-topic or overstep boundaries.

Respectful Directive

Can refer to keeping emotions under control within oneself.

Emotional Containment

 In the allegory, a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern since birth, with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained, facing a wall, unable to turn their heads, while a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Occasionally, people pass by the fire,

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 allows them to withstand immense pressure. But they're the exception. Most deep-sea creatures are confined to a narrow range in the water column where nutrients are scarce since the food drifting downwards from the surface rapidly sinks to the sea floor.

The otherworldly...

 practice and work steps involved prior to entering the confined space the team takes shifts working inside and outside the tanker even agents working the exterior operating the vacuum must be protected you just told me going to

HAZMAT Weed Bust PIPE...

 But how do the chicks break out from the cramped confines of the egg? How come the shell that's been strong enough to protect the chick from the outside world, be also weak enough to allow the chick to break it?

Most Soothing Sir David...

 veined and most importantly their shape creates a perfect aerodynamic surface and they aren't confined to its forearms its legs to had long feathers these feathers are designed for one thing only flight

Top 5 Dinosaur Moments PIPE...

 the youngster's constant thirst confines the hungry group to the narrow riverbed in the hills above where more food grows the 50 degree heat is too much for the calves left fang and the others protect

Elephants Struggle to...

 despite being found in europe asia africa and australia water wheel plants are now endangered and rare in the wild favoring a narrow set of water conditions the plant is usually confined to small

The Fastest Carnivorous...

 I strapped on these chunky legs and I stood up. They were so painful and so confining that all I could think was, how am I ever going to travel the world in these things?

Amy Purdy: Living beyond...

 cramped confines of the egg how can the shell that's been strong enough to protect the chick from the outside world be also weak enough to allow the chick to break it

The Miracle of Hatching...

 of us our life force our spirit is bursting to get out of those confines of the limited

Confine

Physical Boundaries

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