Elsewhere Quotes

• My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Travel

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Happy, Women

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• If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Relationship, Solitude, Finding Peace

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• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

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• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Earth, Praying

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• Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Eye, Small Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Organization, Mexico

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• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  Calvin Trillin

  Wise, Kitchen, Preparation

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

  Josiah Strong

  Cities, Riches, Poverty

  Josiah Strong (1885). “Our country: its possible future and its present crisis”

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• But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

  Charles Schumer

  Teaching, Opportunity, People

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• Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

  Linda Lingle

  Jobs, Heart, School

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• I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

  Paul Allen

  Effort, Visionaries, Fundamentals

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• Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Responsibility, Done, Action

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.

  Scott Speedman

  New York, Two, Directors

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• It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

  Peter L. Berger

  Economy, Democratic, Term

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• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  Katharine Anthony

  History, Romance, Satisfaction

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• A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

  C. S. Forester

  Moving, Home, Novelists

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• St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show

  Mark Harmon

  Shows

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• Im glad I have an outlet. I dont think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.

  Scott Adams

  Creativity, People, Cubicles

  "AT WORK WITH: Scott Adams; Yes, Dilbert's Dad Has a Cubicle of His Own". Interview with Andy Meisler, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 1995.

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• No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

  George Iles

  Eye, Science, Gun

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• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Soul, Graves

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• [About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

  Rene Descartes

  Science, Men, Intelligent

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• On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Beautiful, Wish, Together

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Fall, People, Littles

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.78, Bloomsbury Publishing

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