Maps Quotes - Page 13

• At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

  Walter Lippmann

  Moral, Kind, Human Nature

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

  Calvin Miller

  Sky, World, Treasure

  Calvin Miller (2010). “The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament”, p.335, InterVarsity Press

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• Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.

  Debbie Ford

  People, Giving, Shadow

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• Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Blow, Rights

  "A deadly franchise" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2003.

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• After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, Past, Historical

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• When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Believe, People, Worry

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.85, Penguin

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• I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart or give, so I think my dream readers would be people who just use the book as an excuse to get into their own cycle of thoughts. The book is just like a map. It's just a jotting-down of things that you can interpret in your own ways.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Dream, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

  Gerald Durrell

  Add, Study

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• We were just looking at maps.

  Rick Riordan

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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• [Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Broken, Listening, Hook

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• I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

  Anne Sexton

  Mind, Kind, My Own

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Dream, Heart, Ambition

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• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Decide Upon, Soldier

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• Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces, Cheeks

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6655, Delphi Classics

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• I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Iowa, San Francisco

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.71, Penguin

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• Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.

  Chris Brogan

  Inspirational, Intention

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• There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination.

  Swami Paramananda

  Imagination, Awareness, Leap

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• No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

  Stephen King

  Change, Lonely, Blue

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.654, Anchor

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• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Home, Science, Past

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1987). “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912”, p.364, University of Chicago Press

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• Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Apples, Google

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• Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

  Michael Crichton

  Hard Work, Science, Preparation

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.184, Vintage

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• God, or a source of divinity, put together a map for our lives. That map includes opportunities-not outcomes-but opportunities. And those opportunities are contracts [or] agreements-not that our ego or personality made, but our soul did.

  Caroline Myss

  Opportunity, Agreement, Personality

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• Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is just another example of the homometerological agenda.

  Stephen Colbert

  Blue, Weather, Usa

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