Terrain Quotes

87 Terrain quotes by 79 unique authors

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. — Unknown Author
The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for… — Paul Virilio
We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6)… — Sun Tzu
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large… — Yuri Gagarin
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his… — J. G. Ballard
I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a… — Paul Caponigro
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place)… — Roland Barthes
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate… — Thomas Piketty
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with… — Pope John Paul II
The terrain of Adam’s Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing… — Tom Weiskopf
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran
Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in… — Noel Tichy
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground. — Sun Bin
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast. — Joe Teti
At the top of my list for terrain that I hate navigating through, it is definitely the mangrove. — Joe Teti
We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign affairs. The presidency,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is… — Rose Tremain
But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully,… — Theodor Herzl
Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/ — Daniel Goleman
The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a… — Bill Bradley
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but… — Ariel Durant
But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their… — Frank Bruni
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones… — Emily Giffin

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