Journey Quote by Venkatesh Rao

“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they teach.”

— Marcel Proust

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of…

— Lucy R. Lippard

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not…

— Susan Sontag

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will…

— Robert Dallek

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

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

It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of…

— William Finnegan

We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights;…

— Sun Tzu

But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out…

— Frank Bruni

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect…

— Emily Giffin

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma…

— Dean Karnazes

Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try…

— Rico Lebrun