Elsewhere Quotes - Page 24

• Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life Is, Fly Away, Crosses

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan

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• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Freedom, Fate, Rights

  Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977.

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• An absolute joy to read - it stimulates and engages. Westney is asking new questions not addressed elsewhere . . . and you will be drawn in by the author's inviting, yet quietly compelling style.

  Patricia Powell

  Writing, Joy, Style

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• There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.

  Cyprian

  Church, Christ, Lord

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• There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

  Hermione Gingold

  Men, Political, Politics

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• No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Pain, Psychics

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.73, Random House

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• In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.

  Pat Conroy

  Mistake, Feelings, Century

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.370, Open Road Media

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• Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wall, Believe, Sleep

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• Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Smart, Grateful, Heart

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• We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

  Philip Pullman

  Heaven, Republic, His Dark Materials

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Wise, Meditation, Mindfulness

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.78, Workman Publishing

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• Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Country, Eye, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Life, Travel, Contentment

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• People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

  Alice Munro

  Simple, People, Kitchen

  "Lives of Girls and Women". Book by Alice Munro, 1971.

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• It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Gates

  Lois Lowry (2011). “The Giver (illustrated; gift edition)”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

  Adrienne Rich

  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Egypt, Challenges

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• No matter what happened to any individual person, life was going on elsewhere. The first time Kennedy kissed me, it stood to reason that at the same time, other people were splitting up. And the night Kennedy broke my heart, somewhere - maybe right there in my dorm, other people were falling in love.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Heart, Night

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

  Roland Barthes

  Games, Trying, Busy

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• True life is elsewhere

  Arthur Rimbaud

  True Life, Life Is

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• "I signed on for the role of ‘boyfriend,’ not ‘conscience.’ If you want wholesome and ethical, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But I promise that won’t be half as much fun as this is…" His hand slid down my side and over my hip, and my heart beat faster.

  Rachel Vincent

  Fun, Heart, Hands

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2011.

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• The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Kings, Heaven, Looks

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• We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

  John Noble

  Retirement, Thinking, Ideas

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.

  Winnie Ewing

  Voice, Whales, Scotland

  Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).

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• Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

  Will Durant

  Teacher, Garden, Joy

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