Terrane Quotes & Sayings

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. — John Dryden

I still had the craving that I had given in to all summer long when I had lived on books, to have the reach to grasp both ends of the frame and turn the big image-taking glass to any scene of the world. — Saul Bellow

Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrane. — John McPhee

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits. — Tom Waits

People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!' — Don Lemon

In fact, sometimes God will allow you to experience larger problems in life because He wants to unveil a larger portion of Himself to you. People who want to give up on God simply because life's scenarios don't make sense could very well be walking away from a new manifestation of God and His name in their lives. — Tony Evans

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. — James Weldon Johnson

Every war was the precursor for the wars that followed, a slaughter that justified the slaughters to come. And — Daniel Abraham

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere. — Victor J. Stenger

Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection. — Fawad Afzal Khan

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. — Thomas A. Edison

I jump at any chance to go back into theater. — Taye Diggs

With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do. — Teri Garr