Land Quotes - Page 8

• Truth is a pathless land.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hero, Heroic, Truth Is

  Speech in Holland, 3 Aug. 1929, in Lilly Heber Krishnamurti (1931) ch. 2

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• Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

  Lucretius

  Sweet, Struggle, Wind

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• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Tyrants, Thrones, Length

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Travel, Adventure

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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• There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

  John Henrik Clarke

  Dark, People, Greek

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• The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
  Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
  So to the brave man every land's a home.

  Ovid

  Lying, Home, Blow

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• Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

  Thomas Huxley

  War, Animal, Ships

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Over The Edge, Bounds

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.983, D. H. Lawrence

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• The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

  Walter Wriston

  Moving, People, Intellectual

  "The Future of Money". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. October 1, 1996.

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  If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

  James Madison

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.

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• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Big Sur, Nightmare

  Jack Kerouac (1992). “Pomes All Sizes: Pocket Poets Number 48”, p.158, City Lights Books

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• Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

  Henry Miller

  Country, Divorce, Men

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• I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Men, Long

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• I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Moses, Ifs, If I Could

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• Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Believe

  Lewis Carroll (1993). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Journey, Matter

  Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

  Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!     No hungry generations tread thee down;   The voice I hear this passing night was heard     In ancient days by emperor and clown:   Perhaps the self-same song that found a path      Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,       She stood in tears amid the alien corn;             The same that ofttimes hath     Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam       Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

  John Keats

  Song, Home, Heart

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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• Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

  C. S. Lewis

  Summer, Daughter, War

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.113, Harper Collins

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• It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

  Derrick Jensen

  Book, Law, People

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.242, Seven Stories Press

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• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  William Goldman

  War, Lines, Asia

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.116, A&C Black

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• Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Presidential, Leaving

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

  Robert Jordan

  Laughing, Cruelty, Weeping

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.193, Macmillan

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• I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?" A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the moat when they were startled by a sudden drawn-out cry. They looked up in time see a scarlet-and-gold clad figure sail out of a first-story window, turn over once and then land with an enormus splash in the dark, rancid waters. They shrugged and went back to work.

  John Flanagan

  Dark, Water, Gold

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• For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Country, Growing Up, Blood

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