Maps Quotes - Page 8

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

Edward Witten

Time, Three, Dimensions

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You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bill Bryson

Couple, Cities, Islands

Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

Bill Bryson

Summer, Country, Sorry

"Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

Michael Stipe

Ukulele, Band, Athens

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To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence... To Mrs Washington's travelling expenses in coming to and returning from my winter quarters, the money to defray that taken from my private purse: 1064 pounds, one shilling.

George Washington

Taken, Winter, Glasses

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The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

Peter Kreeft

Two, Evil, Virtue

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We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.

William J. Clinton

Doubt, Important, Firsts

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A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

Chuck Close

Photography, Needs, Attention

"What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

Edward Snowden

Believe, Communication, Nsa

"Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, June 10, 2013.

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Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Robert Ballard

Country, Lying, Rights

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Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

Edward Tufte

Design, Details, Information

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The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

Peter Kreeft

Animal, Civilization, Dying

Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.11, Ignatius Press

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I see the Christian world like this: we've inherited a divided map of the truth, and each of us has a piece. Our traditions teach us that no one else has a valid map and that our own church's piece shows us all the terrain and roads that exist. In fact, there is much more terrain, more roads, and more truth for us to see if we can accept and read one another's maps, fitting them together to give us a clearer picture of the larger Christian tradition.

Michael Spencer

Christian, Jesus, Giving

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Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walk away... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.

Max Keiser

Numbers, Knowing, Needs

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...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

Cynthia Voigt

Forests, Empty, Made

Cynthia Voigt (2015). “Tale of Birle”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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Every Christian should live life with an open Bible and an open map.

William Carey

Christian, Live Life, Should

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Sometimes the best map will not guide you,
you can't see what's round the bend.
Sometimes the road leads through dark places,
sometimes the darkness is your friend

Bruce Cockburn

Dark, Sometimes, Guides

Song: Pacing the Cage, Album: Slice O Life: Bruce Cockburn Live Solo

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Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see a picture of a man in a magazine and say, 'That's exactly what the father in my book looks like!'...I save everything that will help--maps, articles, hand-jotted notes, bits of dialogue from conversations that I overhear.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Notebook, Father, Men

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Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.

Debby Ryan

Water, Storm, Digging

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I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going

Debby Ryan

Everyday, Stories

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Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

Anson Jones

Character, Work Out, Sometimes

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Gather up your telegrams
Your faded pictures, best laid plans
Books and postcards, 45's
Every sunset in the sky
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights
Friends who make you sing
And stars to help you find your place
Music, hope and amazing grace
Maybe what we leave
Is nothing but a tangled little mystery
Maybe what we take
Is nothing that has ever had a name

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Music, Stars, Book

Song: Your Life Story, Album: The Calling

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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

C. S. Lewis

Grief, Writing, Suffering

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

John O'Callaghan

Life, Giving Up, Positivity

"The Maine Unveil 'Anthem For a Dying Breed' DVD Documentary Details". PureVolume interview, www.purevolume.com.

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On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

Bryan Appleyard

Bryan Appleyard (2004). “Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science”, p.14, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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