Elsewhere Quotes - Page 3

• Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Life, Thinking, Habit

  "Midnight Oil". Book by V. S. Pritchett, Vol. 2, Ch. 6, 1971.

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• But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Long, Independence, Religion

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz (Illustrated)”, p.6150, Delphi Classics

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• At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Israel, Hands, Land

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• If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Team, Player

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• No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Love Is, Needs, Persons

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Single, Peace

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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Cat, Humble

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• The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Night, Reality

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• Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Want, Faces

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• The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.

  George Crook

  Men, White Man, Years

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• When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Travel, Space, Far Away

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

  William Blake

  Passion, People, Thieves

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.135, Penguin

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• But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

  Garrett Hardin

  Real, Lying, Fire

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

  George Crook

  Strong, Use, Engagement

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• It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.

  Richard Benjamin

  Missing You, New York, Moving

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• The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Space, Made, Crowded Places

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

  Michel Foucault

  Jail, Discipline, Prison

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• The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

  Jared Diamond

  Loss, Literature, Individual

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• The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

  Henry James

  Country, Writing, Yield

  Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 Jan. 1871

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• I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Book, America, United States

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• It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

  Anna Freud

  Mother, Children, Feelings

  Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham (1967). “The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956”

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• I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

  Piers Anthony

  Light, Annoyed, Waiting

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• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  Ike Skelton

  Iran, Korea, Years

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• School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

  Ivan Illich

  School, Simple, Two

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• The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Independent, Paper, Constitution

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