Range Quotes - Page 19

• Saf keeps a vast range of bullies on hand at all times.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hands, Bully, All Time

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.151, Penguin

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• No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ignorance, Fire, Imagination

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• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sleep, Caring, Men

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• Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Sight, Eagles

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• Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

  Gary Snyder

  Years, Mountain, Still In Love

  Gary Snyder, Tom Killion (2005). “The High Sierra of California”, p.112, Heyday

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• In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

  Adam Johnson

  People, Forever, Ghost

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• One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

  Salman Rushdie

  Choices, Waiting

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”, G K Hall & Company

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• Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate and enlarge him. This categorical imperative is by no way lessened by the fact that such an involvement is inevitably soiled by error: it is a worse error merely to live for oneself, caught within traditions which are soiled by inhumanity.

  Victor Serge

  Lying, Struggle, Men

  Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.374, University of Iowa Press

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• I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.

  Gail Carriger

  Believe, Gun, Bangs

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• Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

  Stephen King

  Home, Hunting, Night

  "Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Commitment, Thinking

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• Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

  Frank Herbert

  Time, Space, Locks

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Errors, Long

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• In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

  H. G. Wells

  Knowledge, World, Lasts

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• In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Nature, Light

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.91

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• History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Peace, Freedom, Tyrants

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1949). “Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle”, New York : New Century Publishers

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• Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Intellectual, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, History, Causes

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• If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Groups, Events, Looks

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• It has passed over mountain ranges and
  The waters of the seven seas.
  It has shown upon laborers in the fields,
  Into the windows of homes,
  And shops, and factories.
  
  It has beheld cities with gleaming towers,
  And also the hovels of the poor.
  It has been witness to both good and evil,
  The works of honest men and women and
  The conspiracy of knaves.
  
  It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages
  And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
  Now, unsullied from its tireless journey,
  It comes to us,
  Messenger of the morning.
  Harbinger of a new day.

  Clinton Lee Scott

  Morning, Home, Army

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• If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dwarves, Long, Accomplishment

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• Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Lying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

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• Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Greatness, Names

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.14

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• Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Moving, Home

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• The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things in your control can be distilled down to a few principles: Get stronger in the right rep ranges, eat appropriately, commit to the program and consistently work hard at it.

  Daniel Roberts

  Workout, Hard Work, People

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