Quotes & Sayings About Distance And Displacement

Leave in a complex state of slumber
Your consciousness of science.
Look At your white face in the wine's red mirror
And then drink the mirror ... and your consciousness — Fernando Pessoa

There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking? — Artie Shaw

I don't like to kick people when they're down. I like to kick people when they're up. — Jimmy Fallon

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys. — Karl A. Menninger

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result. — Jaclyn Moriarty

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. — Marlo Thomas

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. — John Dewey

An experiment," she said ... "I am leaving Nahadoth and Itempas alone together for a while. If the universe starts coming apart again, I'll know I made a mistake. — N.K. Jemisin

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial. — Elizabeth Warren

She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would've done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out - your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that's why I'm sick of love. — Gregory David Roberts

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging. — Pico Iyer

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself. — Andres Serrano

I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show. — Constance Zimmer

This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen. — Margaret Visser

I sense people when they're near me, thinking and feeling and moving around, their bodies, their physical energy. — Kristin Cashore

Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,. — Ben Nelson

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison