Terrain Quotes

87 quotes by 79 authors

Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die at 21. They… — John Cassavetes
Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being… — Katie Couric
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we… — Diane Ackerman
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of… — Douglas Adams
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of… — Cormac McCarthy
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind… — Christopher McDougall
By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as… — Cormac McCarthy
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this… — David Abram
Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky. — Karen Marie Moning
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. — Adrienne Rich
The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult… — Hakeem Jeffries
Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always… — Robert Dallek
China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by… — Wesley Clark
When my husband and I were in our twenties, we thought it would be fun to take up cross-country skiing as a hobby. We were… — Robin Marantz Henig
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road. — Sharon Kay Penman
At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no… — Colin Angle

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