Borders Quotes
722 quotes by 575 authors
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It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
— Emil Zatopek
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From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human…
— Julian Baggini
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The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and…
— Julian Baggini
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As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed…
— Jack Kerouac
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I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find?…
— Charlotte Bronte
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That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent…
— Raymond Carver
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A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so…
— Daniel Handler
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Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of…
— Graham Greene
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By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost.…
— Nick Flynn
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emile M. Cioran
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At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook…
— Michael Collins
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Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent…
— Philip Yancey
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She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their…
— Emma Bull
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But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well…
— Robin McKinley
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Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let…
— George W. Bush
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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in…
— Madeleine Albright
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This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way…
— George Saunders
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Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,…
— Michael Ondaatje
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A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
— Ronald Reagan
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