Elsewhere Quotes - Page 2

• Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Falling In Love, Two, People

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• On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Beautiful, Wish, Together

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  People, Mind, Earth

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• There is a world elsewhere.

  William Shakespeare

  World

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 3, sc. 3, l. 131

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• It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Loss, People, Moments

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

  C. S. Lewis

  Death, Home, Thinking

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• A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Quality, Hours, Length

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

  Ray Davies

  Song, Englishmen, Written

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• Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Heritage, Firsts, Bees

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

  Andre Breton

  Existence, Surrealism, Surrealist

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• What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

  Harvey Cox

  Horse, Riding, May

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• Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

  Theodor Adorno

  Principles, Fascism, Domination

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.108, Verso

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• When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

  Ambrose

  Travel, Rome

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• No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

  Henry Miller

  War, Men, Space

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

  Ed Rendell

  Opportunity, Second Chance, People

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• No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.

  Umar

  Destiny, Worry, Outcomes

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• Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

  Karel Capek

  Eugenics, Wages, Answers

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

  Alan Bennett

  Life, Life Is, Happens

  Alan Bennett (2012). “Hymn and Cocktail Sticks”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

  Ezra Stiles

  Tropical, Regions

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• Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Life, Thinking, Habit

  "Midnight Oil". Book by V. S. Pritchett, Vol. 2, Ch. 6, 1971.

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• But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Long, Independence, Religion

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz (Illustrated)”, p.6150, Delphi Classics

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• If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Team, Player

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• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Intelligent, Men

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Israel, Hands, Land

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• But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

  Melissa Bean

  Responsibility, Accountability, Phrases

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