Quotes About Fault Lines

#1. Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

Ban Ki-moon

#2. Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

Barack Obama

#3. Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Politicians today vow, "Never again!" But they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#5. A prophet's task is to reveal the fault lines hidden beneath the comfortable surface of the worlds we invent for ourselves, the national myths as well as the little lies and delusions of control and security that get us through the day. And Jeremiah does this better than anyone.

Kathleen Norris

#6. Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Rebecca Wells

#7. They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

Rick Perlstein

#9. Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

Christine Pelosi

#10. Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Janet Poppendieck

#11. If love disappeared when we touched the fault-lines, it wouldn't be worth much, would it?

Claire Cross

#12. Margo says, I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

John Green

#13. The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Narendra Modi

#14. Monsters serve both to mark the fault-lines but also, subversively, to signal the fragility of such boundaries.

Elaine Graham

#15. I think how there are fault lines in men as old and uncharted as the earth itself. Made known just before the ground starts separating and by then it's too late.

Ashley Warlick

#16. There are too many fault lines to count now.

Nicholas Sparks

#17. I've traveled this road for many decades and I still don't know how to go. I am a wanderer, traversing mountains of time. There is no fault, only fault lines that tremor and quake, barring me, no warning. Aftershocks. -Broken Places

Rachel Thompson

#18. How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering,
blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conicts of today.

Arundhati Roy

#19. The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

Peter L. Berger

#20. It had bred false camaraderies and drawn my attention to deep flaws and fault lines when what mattered
what matters so often in the course of everyday human life
were the surfaces and the joins.

Michael Chabon

#21. He chiseled open the fault lines in the others' personalities.

David Mitchell

#22. The heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...

John Geddes

#23. A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides where the lines should end. This dreary-sounding definition, unpoetic to a fault, may well turn out to be the best we can do.

Terry Eagleton

#24. It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

Antoine Predock

#25. How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!

Barbara Johnson

#26. There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

Edward Taylor

#27. I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#28. Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

Samuel Johnson

#29. As the survivors returned to Confederate lines, Lee met them and sobbed, "It's all my fault this time."158 It was.159

Edward H. Bonekemper III

#30. Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

Samuel Johnson

#31. All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.

Aubrey Beardsley