"I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt."
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"There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places."
"I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms."
"Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them."
"Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad."
"There's plenty of room at the bottom."
"society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them."
"If possible, leave room for your enemy to become your friend."
"I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones."
"For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at."
"I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge."
"I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people."
"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."
"I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me."
"When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity."
"I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution."
"When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation."
"It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke."
"Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth."
"A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room."