Quotes About Zones

#1. We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

Pema Chodron

#2. The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States is divided into power zones. The Divide itself is the point where the energy meets.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

Christopher Buckley

#4. How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.

Alan Gottlieb

#5. Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia's intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.

Tim Cope

#6. These gun-free areas are actually - they're free-shooting zones for people because they know that there won't be anybody there that can stop them.

Paul Broun

#7. High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#8. You get to play with people's little danger zones.

George Carlin

#9. As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we've never before thought possible.

Robert D. Hales

#10. I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

W.G. Sebald

#11. When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.

Carolina Herrera

#12. During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.

Alan Sugar

#13. The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.

Ruzwana Bashir

#14. That's why the Blue Zones Project was so valuable. It shifted the focus to the environment, to making it easier to obtain healthy foods and to stay active.

Dan Buettner

#15. I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know ...

Gretel Ehrlich

#16. I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#17. The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Mark Cuban

#18. This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Douglas Adams

#19. Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

Richard Corliss

#20. Imperialism could only have powered an internally homogeneous State which attaches to itself agrarian zones far beneath it culturally.

Anonymous

#21. I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

Kajol

#22. We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

B.W. Powe

#23. Miz Beauty does not speak. You've got to discover her erogenous zones, her favorite subjects of conversation, her sign, all on your own. Meanwhile, Miz Piggy's coming like an express train. She doesn't get it every day. And she's hell-bent to make the most of it. She wants more, more, more.

Dany Laferriere

#24. I'd heard theories. Destruction of forests had altered pressure zones. Global warming made for stronger storms. Chemtrails indicated government manipulation of the weather. God punished the family and neighbors of idolaters.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#25. Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

Helen Clark

#26. Excuse me, but I've been to some of the toughest zones in the galaxy to get my targets. And I have never once gone after a target and failed. Ever. (Shahara)
Yeah, but you've never been chased before. It's a lot harder to be the prey than it is to be the predator. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.

Yehuda Berg

#28. But please remember, that in 1991 in the Seym [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country!

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#29. My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue.

Shahid Kapoor

#30. For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

Adam Gidwitz

#31. Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man.

James Dashner

#32. It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

Kerry King

#33. What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.

Ratan Tata

#34. There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

H.P. Lovecraft

#35. It depends on the way you shoot it. It's something I don't really control. The main goal is to make a funny movie, but then I let my mind go. I get lost sometimes in the writing, trying to find some special zones. That's the excitement of making a movie.

Quentin Dupieux

#36. Apart from boosting our long-term economic strength like other Asian economic powers, Philippine companies expanding overseas and going beyond our comfort zones, or going to some uncharted territories, will help sharpen our management skills.

Andrew Tan

#37. Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.

Henry Giroux

#38. There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.

Ice Cube

#39. I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

Paloma Faith

#40. Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Francis Collins

#41. Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.

Steve Martin

#42. Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger zones such as extremely vulnerable coastal zones - from New Jersey to the Philippines. This enormously increases the economic and human costs of hurricanes, rising seas and changing weather patterns.

Nicholas Kristof

#43. I'd seen a lot of handsome men in my life, but Frank was absolutely beautiful. I could stare at him all day. I wanted to touch him, not just in the standard erogenous zones, but to move my fingers over every inch of his skin until I'd memorized his face and body the way he memorized his books.

Nicole Castle

#44. America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

Ben Shapiro

#45. Do not confuse love with lust; they throb in two entirely different zones of the human body.

Sindhu S.

#46. I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice ... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.

Lynsey Addario

#47. My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he has been resisting, such as 'safe zones' inside Syria and more aggressive deployment of U.S. special forces.

David Ignatius

#48. I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

Kate Adie

#49. Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.

Steven Hall

#50. It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Bill Gates

#51. Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.

Bill Dedman

#52. Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth.

Herman Melville

#53. What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.

William Kittredge

#54. We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.

Chris Matakas

#55. What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life
the demon Thought.

Lord Byron

#56. There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

Noam Chomsky

#57. Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries ... Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin.

Ban Ki-moon

#58. In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.

Philip Caputo

#59. Most of us die with our music underplayed ... We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.

Mary Kay Ash

#60. Always had the thought I could attract abundance. When I wrote the book Your Erroneous Zones back in the '70s, I absolutely knew the book was going to do well, but it wasn't a goal at all. I just went out there and started doing something I really loved.

Wayne Dyer

#61. I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Elizabeth Kenny

#62. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

C.D. Wright

#63. Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

Van Jones

#64. By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

Alan Watts

#65. Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.

Jeff Foxworthy

#66. ... zebra crossings were rather like Bosnia's "safe zones": places where, if you die, you may simply die with the knowledge that your killer was in the wrong.

Lucy Wadham

#67. You just crossed six time zones, the pilot offered.

Dan Brown

#68. Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Stan Dale

#69. I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Scott Anderson

#70. Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

Greg Plitt

#71. I can't just go up to people standing in the snow at the German-Austrian border and ask them: "Are you an Islamist?" When people flee to us from war zones, we first have to help. But we also have to be quick to look very closely at who it is that is coming.

Alice Schwarzer

#72. As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

James Hansen

#73. In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.

Gregory Benford

#74. Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones.

Scott B. Pruden

#75. I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

Aleksandra Mir

#76. New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.

Bill Dedman

#77. So when you feel this time approaching, and your comfort zones in view. Stop and think about what you're feeling, and see if what you're feeling is true.

Julie Hebert

#78. In these shallow arroyos
and grease-covered hills,
blowing dust zones,
the Christmas spirit of cotton bales,
fried in butter
and sweeping heat,
life,
spaciously allotted.
Catching our breath,
smiling in silence,
with the lowering sun in our faces.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#79. We're very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because they're tremendously active in offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, for example, where global warming is happening at a much more rapid rate than in more temperate zones.

Eric Schneiderman

#80. The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and our comfort zones and our families. So there was a solidarity in the military, a brotherhood.

Jon Huertas

#81. The United States, with all her time zones and logos, was the home to so many lonely souls, but none at that particular moment felt such an extraordinary loneliness as Blue Gene Mapother, who felt like someone had just signed the divorce papers that would separate himself from himself.

Joey Goebel

#82. An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

David Lange

#83. People are willing to be brave when they admit their smallness within the enormity of the world, and the best way to understand our smallness is to leave our comfort zones and start exploring, one foot in front of the other.

Tsh Oxenreider

#84. I've always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another ... ... transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.

Philip Connors

#85. The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Judith Butler

#86. Those Walmarts weren't buildings, they were bunkers. Those weren't parking lots out front, they were kill zones.

Gard Skinner

#87. Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk,

Wayne LaPierre

#88. Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

Peter McWilliams

#89. As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty of my mother's blue-eyed gaze. With her eyes on me I felt as if I were being studied by flowers.

Pat Conroy

#90. I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.

Sarah Hall

#91. We must intentionally push ourselves out of our comfort zones if we are to make any significant progress on this side of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#92. Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.

Ellsworth Huntington

#93. If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

Lord Chesterfield

#94. Pangram: Emotional intelligence skills (EQ) help kids do extremely well in their adult jobs, love life, and other life zones.

Rebecca Rose Orton

#95. Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.

David Ignatius

#96. Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

Vera Farmiga

#97. I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

Saul Williams

#98. Comfort zones don't have to be comfortable
they're just familiar. It's where you feel like you belong. And, where you feel you belong is where you will stay.

Lysa TerKeurst

#99. It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts.

Joe Manganiello

#100. This, I thought, is why we have comfort zones, because they are comfortable. What can possibly be gained by leaving them?

David Nicholls