Regions Quotes - Page 5

• What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Affliction, Earth

  "Aeneid". Poem by Virgil, Line 460, 29 - 19 BC.

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• Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.

  John McPhee

  Art, Lakes, Oneness

  John McPhee (1982). “The Survival of the Bark Canoe”, p.34, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

  Christopher Morley

  New York, Home, Office Work

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.38, Booklassic

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• Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.

  Andrew Robb

  Simple, Trying, Ease

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• This is a major step forward in achieving our objective, which is an ally having a democratic Iraq, a country able to sustain itself and defend itself, a country that will be an ally in the war on terror and a country which will set such a powerful example to others in the region.

  Tucker Carlson

  Country, Powerful, War

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Blow, Opportunity, Wind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Significant, I Can

  "Brutality smeared in peanut butter" By Arundhati Roy, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2001.

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• The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Next, Towns

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• I want people to leave the theater with a greater understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan. "Song of Lahore" moves beyond headlines and stereotypes and shows that a vast majority of Pakistanis are not perpetrators of religious violence - they are victims of it. The beautiful cultural heritage of the region belies its image in the West as monolithically religious, intolerant, and violent.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Beautiful, Religious, Song

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.

  Timothy Egan

  Running, Believe, Loss

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• All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region, but rather would say, he is the highest possible beauty of the most lucid and perfect color.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Kings, Color, Perfect

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• The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Sacred Scripture, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Years, Democracies Have

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Rivers, Fire, Darkness

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• A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheer, Heart, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

  John James Audubon

  Men, Fur, May

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.241, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Here's something that I believe we have to do as we put together an international coalition, and that is we have to understand that the Muslim nations in the region - Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Jordan - all of these nations, they're going to have to get their hands dirty, their boots on the ground. They are going to have to take on ISIS.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Dirty, Isis

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic debate at Drake University in Des Moines, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Black, Information

  "Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Matter is regarded as being constituted by a region of space in which the field is extremely intense . . . . . . There is no place in this new kind of Physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

  Paul Davies

  Reality, Space, Matter

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• The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Philosophy, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.517

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• Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Campaigns, Strange, Life Is

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• My inspiration is my hometown. I feel that because I'm representing my very overlooked region of Virginia, I have to keep accomplishing my goals to show everyone there that you can truly become whatever you believe with hard work and dedication.

  Thomas Jones

  Believe, Inspiration, Hard Work

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Hierarchy, Environment

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• Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.

  Janet Macunovich

  Summer, Morning, Opportunity

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• What we need to do is lead an international coalition which includes very significantly the Muslim nations in that region who are going to have to fight and defend their way of life.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Needs, Way

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic debate at Drake University in Des Moines, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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