"Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in……" — Justina Chen
"Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees."
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51 Quotes by Justina Chen
Justina Chen has 51 quotes on this site.
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You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.
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Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken,…
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Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.
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To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.
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That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.
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Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you…
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Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.
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Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?
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I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no…
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Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled…
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Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do…
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Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.
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More Border Quotes
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that…
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House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs,…
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people…
— Jan Brewer
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Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
— George W. Bush
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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
— Jeb Bush
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on…
— Herman Cain
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
— Herman Cain
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
— Pablo Casals
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is…
— Paul Cellucci
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to…
— Eric Clapton
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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