To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering,… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt… — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The notion of displacement destabilizes spatial hierarchies of senders and receivers, and turns the issue of historical causality into one or more… — Charlotte Bydler Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be… — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand… — Hal Varian Copy Share Image
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing - and that's the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A single eviction could destabilize multiple city blocks, not only the block from which a family was evicted but also the block… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The fracking revolution kicks off two additional mini-revolutions in energy: the accelerated shift to natural gas-powered vehicles, reducing the oil demand even… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
“Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like… — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a… — Alan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
“He didn't know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too… — Dominique Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
At some point I go back on the sand to get my sand legs. Because it takes a good month for my… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image
“A few moments into the ride, I saw Reynaldo's figure down the road, walking erectly, holding something. Seeing him there, amid the… — Glenn Diaz Copy Share Image
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
If Trump were to go ahead with a renewed policy of hostility toward Iran, it would immediately raise tensions, and could quickly… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their… — Kenneth Bacon Copy Share Image
“Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown;… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
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