Elsewhere Quotes
506 quotes by 451 authors
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Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the…
— Ishmael Beah
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A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was…
— Garry Disher
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All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a…
— Jessica Hagedorn
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We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell…
— Stephen Leacock
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I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the…
— Paul Davies
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If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How…
— Paul Davies
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms…
— Michel Foucault
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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
— Anna Freud
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland…
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere…
— William Hague
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie…
— Garrett Hardin
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued…
— Sam Harris
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go…
— Victor Hugo
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