Quotes About Mapmakers

#1. Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

Justina Chen

#2. God's mapmakers rely on Christ not cheap human tricks, to draw people to the truth.

Eric Ludy

#3. There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Have you even held a command? Nikolai asked. I'd once led a seminar of junior mapmakers, but I didn't think that was what he meant.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. God's mapmakers give no thought to their own desires or security. Instead, they eagerly spill themselves out as a fragrant offering to heaven.

Eric Ludy

#6. Early mapmakers kept their backs to the sea

Sarah Hymas

#7. Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

Ken Wilber

#8. It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

Saul Bellow

#9. This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

Gary Johnson

#10. They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

Anthony Horowitz

#11. Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

A.B. Simpson

#12. Gates Open at Nightfall & Close at Dawn in swirly lettering, and under that, in tiny plain letters: Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated Bailey doesn't know what "exsanguinated" means, but he doesn't much like the sound of it.

Erin Morgenstern

#13. I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Sunil Mittal

#14. Hurray - I was someone else. I was not completely crazy yet. Seriously antisocial, of course, and somewhat sporadically homicidal, nothing wrong with that. But not crazy.

Jeff Lindsay

#15. A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

#16. [A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

Jan Struther

#17. Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Maria Montessori

#18. But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

Fiona Apple

#19. See the minutes, how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.

William Shakespeare