Hinterland Quotes

#1. Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

Joe Slovo

#2. In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.

Ben Hecht

#3. There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

Peter York

#4. Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

H.G.Wells

#5. In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#6. At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.

Erik Larson

#7. He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

J.K. Rowling

#8. We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.

Robert Edmond Jones

#9. With Will I sensed a vast internal hinterland, a world he wouldn't give me even a glimpse of.

Jojo Moyes

#10. Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' of a genre that's perceived as adolescent aspiring to be fully adult.

Steve Erickson

#11. Happiness is the primary goal of human existence.

Joey Lawsin

#12. New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

Saul Bellow

#13. My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

Lisa Snowdon

#14. I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home.

Dennis Kucinich

#15. It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

Aporva Kala

#16. Every single person who's drifted in and out of your life is a part of your divinely chosen experience. So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you.

Wayne Dyer

#17. If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.

Rush Limbaugh

#18. Ash, you're my sister and I love you. But some days you can be about as bright as a black hole.

Karsten Knight

#19. Well, I was named after Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade Jagger. How emasculating is it to be named after a girl! But I think I handled it well, it's not like I ended up wearing makeup and girl's pants.

Jade Puget

#20. The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.

Tim LaHaye

#21. If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.

Peter Singer

#22. Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.

Maximilian Kolbe

#23. Without businesse debauchery.

George Herbert