Latitude Quotes
54 quotes by 49 authors
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that…
— George Bernard Shaw
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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch…
— Mark Twain
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3HO is a family of healthy, happy, and holy people. Do you understand the word "family"? If, under all longitudes and latitudes, we keep our…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
— Susie Orbach
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....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of…
— Charles Dickens
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No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within…
— James Madison
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Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence…
— Kim Stanley
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Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their…
— Daniel Gillies
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But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from…
— Annie Dillard
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Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.
— Walter Russell
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.
— Ras Kass
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The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude…
— Edward Snowden
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
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Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and…
— Hal Borland
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Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes.
— Mojib Latif
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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of…
— William H. Seward
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay…
— Charles C. Mann
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From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a…
— Charles Dickens
Who Wrote These Latitude Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 54 Latitude Quotes, led by these top contributors: