Acclimation Quotes

#1. The first men to set foot on the moon were sent to Iceland for acclimation - that's how unlike to anything else the Icelandic landscape is.

Gudjon Bergmann

#2. I was seized by doubt. Should I have come here? But going back was impossible. I had fled a known terror, and perhaps I could cope with this unknown terror that lay ahead.

Richard Wright

#3. We should have springs and rivers, not mines and treasure tunnels. Gold is an unwelcome visitor. It works against the acclimation of people to the land.

Tim Westover

#4. For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be.

William Shakespeare

#5. The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.

F. Enzio Busche

#6. How so much pain and such happiness could fit in the tiny space inside her, Ria didn't know.

Sonali Dev

#7. Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other to become the shamans and healers of our own soul.

Robert Moss

#8. With the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

John Kennedy Toole

#9. I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

Richard Wright

#10. The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.

Michael Kimmel

#11. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

#12. Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

Peter Schjeldahl

#13. In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

Tullian Tchividjian

#14. The greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world.

Alan W. Watts

#15. In the summer of 1776, the average British soldier was 28 years old with seven years experience in the Army. The average American soldier was 20 and had known military life for only six months.

Joseph J. Ellis

#16. In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

Janet Echelman

#17. I wasn't athletic and had no desire to work out, so I watched what I ate. Correction: I ate what I wanted and felt guilty about it later.

Megan Miranda

#18. There's less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank," Bailey said. "They'll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark's.

Dave Eggers

#19. Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

Edward Abbey

#20. She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today.

Kristin Cashore

#21. My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

Martin Freeman