Open Fields Quotes

• Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Sleep, Men

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• I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Night, Want

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.30, Anchor

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• The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Life, Power, Inspire

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

  Charles Darwin

  Future, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.51, Broadview Press

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• On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

  Starhawk

  Teacher, Beach, Men

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.

  Jens Jensen

  Life, Smile, Nature

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• We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.

  Alan Cohen

  Moving, Thinking, Lakes

  Alan Cohen (2007). “Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It”, p.20, Bantam

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• While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.

  Sanai

  Secret, Quests, Fields

  Hakim Sanai (2013). “From The Walled Garden Of Hakim Sanai”, p.17, Katchaloo Publishing

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• I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

  Amber Heard

  Dad, Fields, Driving

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.

  George Whitefield

  Believe, People, Religion

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• Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Backyards

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.

  Billy Collins

  Real, Thinking, Risk

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.

  Billy Collins

  Real, Thinking, Risk

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

  T. E. Brown

  Mirrors, Giving, Calling

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• Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Fields

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.154, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky.
  Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.

  Kage Baker

  Dream, Light, Sky

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• Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

  Christopher Moore

  Native American, Reflection, Fields

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• It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

  Kim Basinger

  Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Fields

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• I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Blood

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• I cannot see the short, white curls
  Upon the forehead of an Ox,
  But what I see them dripping with
  That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax;
  When I see calves and lambs, I see
  Them led to death; I see no bird
  Or rabbit cross the open field
  But what a sudden shot is heard;
  A shout that tells me men aim true,
  For death or wound, doth chill me through.

  W. H. Davies

  Men, Animal, Blood

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• If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.

  John Naisbitt

  Feet, Perspective, Fields

  John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness

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• Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

  Jon Lajoie

  Eye, Fake, Dumb

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• My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.

  Clara Barton

  Home, Writing, Men

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• For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is the problem of landmines. For example, when the French troops went into Kosovo they were told that they were going to enter in half-tracks, over the open fields. But their leaders had forgotten about the landmines. And this was a major problem because, these days, landmines are no longer localized.

  Paul Virilio

  Gps, Track, Leader

  Source: ctheory.net

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