Top 100 Frontier Quotes
#1. [the abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the "I" does not disappear in it but finds, in that sublime alienation, a forfeited existence.
Julia Kristeva
#2. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.
Mario Cuomo
#3. The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
(Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate ... )
Terry Pratchett
#5. Erik the Red left Norway for frontier Iceland 'on account of some killings' and after a while he had to leave Iceland on account of some more killings; he needed a fresh start after his first fresh start.
Michael Pye
#6. Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.
Steven Raichlen
#7. America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.
Camille Paglia
#8. A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.
Dick Rutan
#9. I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
Helen Keller
#10. It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
William Bartram
#11. We cannot do it in this way for two reasons. First, we do not yet know all the basic laws: there is an expanding frontier of ignorance. Second, the correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore,
Richard Feynman
#12. Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.
Bruce Beutler
#13. The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.
Peter Sarsgaard
#14. You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.
Edward VII
#15. The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.
Rusty Schweickart
#16. An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.
Federico Fellini
#17. Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'
Mo Ibrahim
#19. Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.
Edward Dahlberg
#20. Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#21. In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
Orson Welles
#22. The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
Buzz Aldrin
#23. last frontier of competitive advantage will be the transformation of unhealthy organizations into healthy ones,
Patrick Lencioni
#24. The children's happy cries rise and fall in the evening light as imperfect and irrevocable as the past, and he stands in the yard of his father's house, waiting, poised motionless on the frontier of the future, until it is too dark to see.
Gregorio C. Brillantes
#25. Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.
Salman Rushdie
#27. The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.
Kenichi Fukui
#28. There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.
Gore Vidal
#29. It's the excitement of being on the frontier.
Suzanne Cory
#30. More important than the material issue ... the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us ... the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.
Gerard K. O'Neill
#31. The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.
Kim Jee-woon
#32. Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#33. Kentucky as a whole has lagged behind the rest of the nation in almost every field of government and public service, primarily because the fiercely independent and uncooperative mentality of the frontier hunter-farmer has remained so deeply and tenaciously embedded in the mass psyche.
Harry M. Caudill
#34. And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
Alan Furst
#35. Different frontier - our capacity to harvest the benefits of the
Brink Lindsey
#36. But now that I view the scene in retrospect I see it as a very gentle and firm deportation, taking me from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.
Christopher Hitchens
#37. Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.
Laird Barron
#38. Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
Ha-Joon Chang
#39. I wanted music very bad this evening, that singing devotchka in the Korova having perhaps started me off. I wanted like a big feast of it before getting my passport stamped, my brothers, at sleep's frontier and the stripy shest lifted to let me through.
Anthony Burgess
#40. Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded.
Elayne Boosler
#41. A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
John Eldredge
#42. The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe.
Joel Davis
#43. Either way, every multisided platform has to have a strategy for making the trek to the critical mass frontier from which they can survive and prosper.
David S. Evans
#44. The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.
Alan Huffman
#45. The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
Paul Harris
#46. The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own "hunting shirts" to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.
Joseph J. Ellis
#47. We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.
David Helvarg
#48. All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
Marshall McLuhan
#49. Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
Terence McKenna
#50. In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.
Mo Udall
#51. It is said that science demystifies nature, but scientists on the frontier are awed by the elegance and harmony of nature.
Daniel C. Matt
#52. Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.
Cliff Martinez
#53. New knowledge enhances an ever increasing sense of our own ignorance. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. Feynman called it 'the expanding frontier of ignorance'.
Matt Baldwin
#54. The stranger's way of looking at things, the eye of a man who does not recognize, who is beyond this world, the eye as frontier between being & non-being - belongs to the thinker. It is also the eye of a dying man, a man losing recognition.
Paul Valery
#55. It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17
, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
Walter Scott
#56. Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
Ricardo Lagos
#57. I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. virtue of the American frontier and its allegedly salubrious
Eithne Luibheid
#60. During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#61. I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#63. Right. We have reached the technological frontier, entrepreneurial energy has successfully exploited all
Brink Lindsey
#64. life is so dangerous, there's nothing to fear; life is so possible, every breath a frontier
Libby Roderick
#65. Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.
Leonard Read
#66. To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
Salman Rushdie
#67. Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.
Heinz Pagels
#70. I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.
Lena Dunham
#71. Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.
Robert Hormats
#72. On October 7, 1950, the enemy attacked the Tibetan frontier in six places simultaneously.
Heinrich Harrer
#73. What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.
Joseph M. Juran
#74. We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.
Eric Weiner
#75. Every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
Freya Stark
#76. Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.
Buzz Aldrin
#77. Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.
Karen Hines
#78. It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.
Patricia C. Wrede
#79. Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#80. The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.
John Culliney
#82. At some point in the journey of being in it for yourself, you realize you need other people. Any good frontier story, in some respect, is about that.
Jonathan E. Steinberg
#83. Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns.
Rebecca Solnit
#84. As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.
Rusty Schweickart
#85. Between 1866 and 1900, about 20,000 people were shot to death on the American frontier. In
Alan Royle
#86. There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.
Padgett Powell
#87. It is the last place heading south before the landscape gets terminally dusty, glum and thinly settled, so it has an oasis or frontier atmosphere and a sense that the cappuccinos are a bit hard-won.
Simon Winder
#88. Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
James A. Michener
#89. Hell, I'll be safest pretending I'm a boy the rest of my life. The frontier ain't for the faint of heart, and it certainly ain't kind to women. Sometimes I think the whole world's 'gainst us.
Erin Bowman
#90. Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
Sarah Zettel
#91. We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
John F. Kennedy
#92. Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.
Mehmet Oz
#94. Land is a frontier for ship; it cannot go beyond it! The extent of dreams is a frontier for human being; it cannot go beyond it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. Americans have long been taught to hate all people who will not or cannot work, to hate even themselves for that. We can thank the vanquished frontier for that piece of common-sense cruelty. The time is coming, if it isn't here now, when it will no longer be common sense. It will simply be cruel.
Kurt Vonnegut
#96. I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
Cate Blanchett
#97. The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
James D. Watson
#98. It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world, wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.
Cita Stelzer
#99. That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom.
James C. Scott
#100. Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds ... If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.
John Madden
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