Terrain Quotes

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If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment… — Aron Nimzowitsch
What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain… — Joss Whedon
The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the… — David Abram
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the… — Michael Herr
I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of the… — William Anders
It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner,… — John Crowe Ransom
What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the… — Mao Zedong
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -… — Christopher McDougall
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of… — Vaclav Havel
You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the… — Chuck D
A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the… — Judy Davis
Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies,… — Joel Edgerton
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I… — Emily Giffin
The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and… — Michael Hardt
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who… — Criss Jami
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for… — Peggy Noonan
An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. — Rebecca Solnit
Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave… — Fernando Pessoa

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