The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.
We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.
By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. "It'll never fit!" people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went.
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.
I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.
