Elsewhere Quotes - Page 20

• He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.

  Tony Gubba

  Football, Different, Afternoon

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• In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Men, Cost

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.488, Bantam Classics

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• If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, Sky, Best Effort

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• Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

  Adolf Hitler

  Germany, Jew

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• If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Fit, Obligation, Company

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, World, Earth

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.232, Vintage

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• The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

  Gloria Steinem

  Imagination, Television, Tvs

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

  Mae West

  Real, Cutting, Air

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• The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

  John Fowles

  Comforting, Abhorrent, News

  1974 The Ebony Tower,'Poor Koko'.

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• Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

  Barbara Holland

  New York, Prayer, Attitude

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

  Bill Buford

  Food, June, July

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• But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

  Jane Austen

  Description

  Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.766, Wordsworth Editions

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• I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere.

  Gilles Marini

  Grass, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

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• That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

  Howard Nemerov

  Mean, Character, Stories

  Howard Nemerov (1993). “A Howard Nemerov Reader”, p.186, University of Missouri Press

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• I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.

  Koki Hirota

  Fashion, Army, Blood

  "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.

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• Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

  Dada Vaswani

  Sunset, Reality, Birth

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• I will be laying out in detail, what I think we need to do with our friends and allies in Europe and elsewhere to do a better job of coordinating efforts against the scourge of terrorism. Our country deserves no less because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Strong, Jobs

  Hillary Clinton's speech on foreign policy and domestic issues at the Democratic presidential debate at Drake University in Iowa hosted by the CBS News, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

  E. B. White

  Eye, Together, Television

  "Removal". Essay by E. B. White (July 1938), published in his book "One Man's Meat", 1942.

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• If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Looks, Useless, Finding Peace

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• One Tree Hill was a great learning opportunity for me, and Im excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

  Hilarie Burton

  Opportunity, Tree, Hills

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• It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Painting, Take Me

  "Peter Doig: the art of the foreign". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

  Humphry Davy

  Burdens Of Life, Land, Brain

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• It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.

  Helen Waddell

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).

  Reza Aslan

  War, Home, Fighting

  Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.84, Random House

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