Arrivals Quote by Gretel Ehrlich Download Open image “Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.” — Gretel Ehrlich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arrivals Departure Islands Reminders
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores,… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils,… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share
“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth,… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)” — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful,… — Dith Pran Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere.… — Scout Niblett Copy Share Image
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the… — Anonymous Copy Share
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm… — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
The arrival of Ade Akinbiyi gave everyone a lift. He's a natural born goalscorer. — Trevor Francis Copy Share Image
