Cartology Quotes & Sayings

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this? — Hilary Mantel

Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies. — Dava Sobel

To have the inner intent to die early is artadhyan (adverse contemplation) as well as raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation) and to have the inner intent to not die is also artadhyan and raudradhyan.One should disembark when the 'station' arrives. Do not have the inner intent to die and also to not die. — Dada Bhagwan

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. — Alan Bennett

Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace. — Robert Farrar Capon

It will take faith, to go forward together without knowing exactly what the future brings. — Katy Regnery

Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable form of government or attempt to shape it. Islam has never offered nor established a theocracy in its name. Instead, Islam establishes fundamental principles that orient a government's general character. — Fethullah Gulen

When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding ... — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role. A — Suzanne Collins

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible. — Dava Sobel

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home. — Janet Jackson

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose. — Ann Romney

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could. — Martha Wainwright

You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever! — Ambrose Bierce

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. — Helen Keller