Latitude As Quotes

#1. Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Learned Hand

#2. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

Stephen R. Covey

#3. Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

Susie Orbach

#4. I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude ... Adventure is my guidon.

L. Ron Hubbard

#5. There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.

Mark Twain

#6. Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Many think they shall not pay so dear for an error in judgment as for a sin in practice. Yea, some have such a latitude, that they fancy a man may be saved in any religion -

William Gurnall

#8. Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.

Anais Nin

#9. Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

Kim Stanley

#10. I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.

William Friedkin

#11. The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

Brad Pitt

#12. People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

Dennis Crowley

#13. [Bill] Clinton was able to defeat conservatives, Republicans, at every turn. And so he was given wide latitude, leeway. He could do whatever he wanted and not be condemned for it. But young people today are not prone to rewarding that kind of behavior.

Rush Limbaugh

#14. Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

Fanny Fern

#15. They say your attitude determines your latitude ...

Kanye West

#16. I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

Annie Leibovitz

#17. In that latitude the midsummer days were long, midsummer nights only a short darkness between the long twilight that postponed the stars and the green dawn clarity that sponged them up.

Wallace Stegner

#18. The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

Jules Verne

#19. In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

Lee R. Raymond

#20. When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Rob Lowe

#21. A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#22. It seemed impossible that he'd chosen to live here, at a latitude where spring was a semantic variation on winter, in a grid whose rigid geometry only a Greek or a builder of prisons could love, in a city that made its own gravy when it rained.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#23. The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time.

Dava Sobel

#24. He went up to the globe and gave it a spin. It emitted a faint creak and moved about one inch, bringing into his purview a daddy long legs which had died on it in latitude 44.

John Galsworthy

#25. What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#26. As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

James Lee Burke

#27. While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

Thomas Jefferson

#28. Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

John Cheever

#29. 'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

John Wilkins

#30. This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

Karen Russell

#31. When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#32. I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent
who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter
friend. I do love you, dear Mama.

Julia Quinn

#33. I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Thomas Jefferson

#34. No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

Honore De Balzac

#35. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

Louise Penny

#36. Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,
the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,
the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#37. I'm not as obsessive-compulsive about certain things; I give a lot of latitude to people and support people. I know that I can't do it myself and that you're only as good as the people you have behind you.

Donna Karan

#38. No latitude makes any difference to what men will do to other men, whether for gain or in the name of justice.

Barry Unsworth

#39. Felicity, felicity - how shall I say it? - is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you - with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Joseph Conrad

#40. Today, the latitude and longitude lines govern with more authority than I could have imagined forty-odd years ago, for they stay fixed as the world changes its configuration underneath them - with continents adrift across a widening sea, and national boundaries repeatedly redrawn by war or peace.

Dava Sobel

#41. All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.

Chris Squire

#42. This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Mark Zuckerberg

#43. The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.

Bellamy Young

#44. The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

Thomas Paine

#45. Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.

Michael Cunningham

#46. I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

Christopher Columbus

#47. In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

Henry David Thoreau

#48. Forever - is composed of Nows - / 'Tis not a different time - / Except for Infiniteness - / And Latitude of Home - / From this - experienced Here - / Remove the Dates - to These - / Let Months dissolve in further Months - / And Years - exhale in Years -

Emily Dickinson

#49. When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

Mark Twain

#50. I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.

Ras Kass

#51. Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Oscar Wilde

#52. The winters in the latitude of Sullivan's Island are seldom very severe, and in the fall of the year it is a rare event indeed

Edgar Allan Poe

#53. You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#54. It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

William H. Seward