Thickets Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or… — Chang-Rae Lee
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable… — Ivars Peterson
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer… — Ibn Khaldun
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular… — Ferdinand Mount
The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off… — Elspeth Huxley
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now… — Ben Brantley
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets… — Robert Bridges
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,… — John Muir
Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap… — Jerry Saltz
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels. — Walter de La Mare
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these… — Parker J. Palmer
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown,… — Saul Bellow
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable… — Ivars Peterson

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