Maps Quotes - Page 5

• I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey.As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.

  Jim Henson

  Smart, Believe, Journey

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• I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera moves to the right. Then comes Kiev, then Moscow and then everything stops. This seems to be the West's view of us - of a wild Russia that begins past Moscow, a place one prefers not to see. This is a big mistake. The West must pay closer attention.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they've never seen your face, they're not sure where you live and have no map to the place.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Teacher, Names, Family And Friends

  "Song: 'Dear God' ('A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden')". 2011.

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• The most interesting people I know drink in life and savor every drop-the sweet and the sour. The good and the bad. The planned and the unplanned... Right in the midst of what seems to me to be a detour from the map, I'm often gifted with something precious and unforgettable. Capturing the moment is a choice, a way of life. It requires us to wake up, live life, and be present-here, there and everywhere. Sometimes that's scary; sometimes it's exhilarating. Always, it's an adventure I keep learning to welcome with a full and grateful heart.

  Luci Swindoll

  Gratitude, Sweet, Live Life

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• I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, People, Wheels

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• I love wandering. It's liberating to throw away the map and explore uncharted galleries. You'll nearly always stumble into something immensely interesting that way.

  Steve Cosson

  Interesting, Way, Gallery

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

  Peter Gallagher

  Showing Up

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• the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

  Robin McKinley

  Running, Speak English, Inbreds

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• People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, People, Soul

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• In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Airports, People, Soul

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2014). “Changing Planes: Stories”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Home, People, House

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

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• I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

  Jean Webster

  Sight, Want, Hats

  Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.86, Penguin

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• The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Secret, Fascination

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• There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Science, Sky

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• I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

  Werner Herzog

  Underwear, Toothbrushes, Luggage

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• People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

  Holly Black

  Real, Player, Games

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• By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

  David Mccandless

  Motivation, Inspiration, Eye

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• I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

  Oscar Wilde

  Albania

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• And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

  Matt Haig

  Book, Reading, Humanity

  Matt Haig (2015). “Reasons to Stay Alive”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

  Saadi

  Fate, World, Pursuit

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• I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...

  Cecil Rhodes

  Thinking, Race, If There Is A God

  "Imperial racism". "The Story of Africa" by BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk. February 19, 2007.

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• Setting goals is one of the most important things you can do to guarantee your personal, professional and financial success. Goals are like a road map to your target destination. Each goal accomplished is another mile behind you on the way to where you want to be.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Goal, Important, Want

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• History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been, where they are and what they are. Most important, history tells a people where they still must go, what they still must be. The relationship of history to the people is the same as the relationship of a mother to her child.

  Dr. John

  Mother, Children, People

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• ['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.

  John Lewis

  Moving, Long, Want

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

  Peter Kreeft

  If There Is A God, Virtue, Piety

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.9, Ignatius Press

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