Displacements Quotes

#1. We should not see those great displacements of capital, of labor, and of population, that legislative measures occasion; displacements that render so uncertain and precarious the very sources of existence, and thus enlarge to such an extent the responsibility of Governments.

Frederic Bastiat

#2. She is the kind of child who feels a protective tenderness toward her own beginnings. It is part of her strategy in a world of displacements to make every effort to restore and preserve, keep things together for their value as remembering objects, a way of fastening herself to a life.

Don DeLillo

#3. Many ... have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Thomas Hardy

#4. The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Lewis Mumford

#5. Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

Thomas Hardy

#6. Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily)
An enemy in disguise. (Draven)

Kinley MacGregor

#7. What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.

Bella Freud

#8. Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Thomas Metzinger

#9. Beware," the woman in the red lacquer mask said. "Of whom?" "Of all. They shall come day and night to see the wonder that has been born again into the world, and when they see they shall lust. For dragons are fire made flesh, and fire is power.

George R R Martin

#10. What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

George Eliot

#11. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.

Debasish Mridha

#12. It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

Chogyam Trungpa

#13. I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one. There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today to try to just say wait, I'll get to that when I can. That is just not an acceptable approach.

Hillary Clinton

#14. Only the unimaginative fear death when it's oblivion that cuts deepest.

Sergio De La Pava

#15. The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

James Russell Lowell

#16. To me, it's worth getting offended by someone if it means I can trust that every word is their true opinion.

Sarah Glidden