Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

Ash Sarkar
Ash Sarkar

British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not bestowed by the state, but extracted from it by force.

Ashish Vidyarthi
Ashish Vidyarthi

Sometimes we think roles define us. One can emerge beyond the confines of their roles to make an impact on society.

Asma Jahangir
Asma Jahangir

Duplicity in matters of religion is not confined to Pakistan, but it hurts the most in societies where debate on religion is asphyxiated and preachers of hate have become keepers of faith.

Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri

I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.

Ben Dolnick
Ben Dolnick

We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in lots of sugar, and we'll get fat and sick. Confine our movement, and we'll get weak and antsy. Give us some manageable problems with which to grapple, and we'll cheer up.

Ben Miles
Ben Miles

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.

Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Chai Jing
Chai Jing

Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'

Chanakya
Chanakya

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.