Maps Quotes - Page 28

• One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. But if we want to, there is a practical way to look at that picture and change it. Here is the way of the Treasure Map.

  Lisa Hoffman

  Get Better, Looks, Treasure

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• By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Heart, Swings

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• The Bible is a Perfect Map and Chart to the Christian on Pilgrimage Through the World.

  George Frederick Pentecost

  Christian, Perfect, World

  George Frederick Pentecost (1885). “"In the Volume of the Book ": Or, the Profit and Pleasure of Bible Study ... with an Introduction by Revs. Joseph Cook and J.H. Vincent”

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• When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Journey, Order

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long.

  Gavin de Becker

  Long, Needs, Arbitrary

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.

  Anthony Marra

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Pieces, Paper

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Our World, Land, People

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.12, Anchor

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Unique, Challenges

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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• I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Skins, Movement, Navigation

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.12, Delacorte Press

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• Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Business, Goal, Way

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Confidence, Travel, Way

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• There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Wall, Style, Wonderland

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.105, Egmont UK

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• What is it but a map of busy life,
  Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

  William Cowper

  Life, Busy, Fluctuation

  William COWPER (1835). “The works of his life and letters”, p.37

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• Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place.

  Terry Pratchett

  Said, Behinds, Standing

  "Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Noble Man, Law

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• The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.

  Haddon W. Robinson

  Bible, Compassion, Doe

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• In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the electric currents. Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often pinch to filamentary or surface currents. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure.

  Hannes Alfven

  Distance, Space, Order

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• Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

  Patrick Ness

  Giving, Useless, World

  "Patrick Ness accepts Carnegie medal with fierce defence of libraries". Patrick Ness' acceptance speech at the Carnegie Medal, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike… is to stop thinking about ‘there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off’ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way.

  Dick Costolo

  Fall, Thinking, Keys

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• Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

  Robert Henri

  Drawing, Should, Models

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

  Lesley Howarth

  Two, Way, Easier

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• The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.

  Peter Haggett

  Religious, Book, Unique

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