Displacement Quotes

34 Displacement quotes by 30 unique authors

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.… — Maya Angelou
A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement… — Pico Iyer
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God. — Andrew Murray
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from… — David Lodge
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the… — Judith Butler
The fracking revolution kicks off two additional mini-revolutions in energy: the accelerated shift to natural gas-powered vehicles, reducing the oil demand even further, and the… — Thomas P.M. Barnett
I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash,… — Deborah Copaken Kogan
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together,… — Judith Butler
In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been… — Walter Kohn
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to… — Pieter Zeeman
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like… — Mahmoud Abbas
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all… — Muqtada al Sadr
The mirrors reflect a sense of displacement in today's fashion, a lack of clear vision. — Miuccia Prada

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