Meridians Quotes

#1. Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.

Herman Melville

#2. If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.

Steven Weinberg

#3. 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

#4. Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us ... Time won't be able to catch us.

Tove Jansson

#5. Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#6. Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. We have our arts, the ancients had theirs ... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

Voltaire

#8. Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

Wong Kiew Kit

#9. Thou canst but try,' said John. 'Anyone can *not* do it.

Marguerite De Angeli

#10. when your knees become fatter than your legs, start eating again.

Jane Moore

#11. I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#12. I finished my New Amsterdam Black & Tan. I wanted another one, but I was used to that. I always wanted another one.

Robert B. Parker

#13. You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Maurice Greene

#14. VI. If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.

William Blake

#15. I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to comunism is currently still very relevant.

Gianfranco Fini

#16. Eventually, at Buddhahood, you become capable of remaining in the innate

Dalai Lama XIV

#17. Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Judith Martin

#18. I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

Eliot Spitzer

#19. That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.

Kelly Cutrone

#20. You will never catch love my chasing it.

Toni Sorenson

#21. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again ...

Graham Chapman

#22. Do it today! It will spare you the effort of finding excuses tomorrow.

Steve Maraboli