Absence Quote by John Robert Seeley

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a…

— Rachel Carson

That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact…

— Walter Becker

It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.

— Edmund Hillary

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

— Rajneesh

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums…

— John Steinbeck

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not…

— Alexander the Great

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

— Nikki Giovanni

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

— Eqbal Ahmad

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

— D. H. Lawrence

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

— James Buchan

We conquer, not in any brilliant fashion-we conquer by continuing.

— George H Morrison