Maps Quotes - Page 36

• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Light, Hands

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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• Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Hands, White

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.241, Vintage

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• We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Relationship, Believe, Book

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 01, 2015

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• Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

  Russell Baker

  Emotion, Treats, Humans

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• THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.

  Ken Wilber

  Reality, Two, Secret

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Names, Desert, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.387, Vintage

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Courage

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• At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

  Sherman Alexie

  Night, Realizing, Tradition

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

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• One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Would Be, Stories

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

  Richard Peck

  Children, Home, Waiting

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• Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

  Tom Waits

  Reading, Math, Reality

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• What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Clouds, Giving, Atlas

  "Cloud Atlas". "The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 389. Book by David Mitchell, 2004.

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• While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Google, Email, Pennies

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• It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Reality, Decision, Events

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• I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

  Steven Wright

  Summer, People, Lasts

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• What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Mirrors, Luxury

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• Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

  E. O. Wilson

  Brain, World, Input

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

  Eric Weiner

  Real, Biblical, Garden

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• Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.

  Justina Chen

  Reading, Keys, Practice

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• It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reading, Cat, Peculiar

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.10, Pottermore

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• I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Adventure, Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!

  Josh McDowell

  New York, Mistake, Philosophy

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• Why are we working so hard to preserve Iraq, a fake country to begin with? Why do we care whether this fake country that was drawn on the map 100 years ago remains?

  Bill Maher

  Country, Years, Iraq

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• So, if I looked him up on google maps-

  Rick Riordan

  Google, Google Maps, Ifs

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