Elsewhere Quotes
506 quotes by 451 authors
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S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory,…
— Marilyn French
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The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While…
— William Shakespeare
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...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home…
— Rebecca Solnit
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All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now,…
— Susan Sontag
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
— Hermann Hesse
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My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
— Rumi
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...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried…
— Lois Lowry
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It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies…
— Edward Said
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The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place…
— Lois Lowry
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Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
— Frances Mayes
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In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk…
— Aldous Huxley
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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of…
— Gregory Maguire
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The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may…
— Abraham Maslow
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Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention,…
— Andrea Camilleri
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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among…
— Wendell Berry
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For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would…
— John Calvin
Who Wrote These Elsewhere Quotes
451 authors contributed a total of 506 Elsewhere Quotes, led by these top contributors: