Topographers Quotes & Sayings

Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation. — John MacLachlan Gray

The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La or a vortex of time 200 years ago. Those kinds of experiences are very much of the countryside of Bhutan, where people are truly happy in the sense of not creating and wanting more. — Karan Bajaj

What most upset her, was the widespread use of slave labor. ...It is true Republicanism that drives the slaves half fed, and destitute of clothing...to labor...while the owner walks about idle...white men considered idleness a virtue even if they owned only one slave or none. No white man would do work considered too menial for his race. — Lynne Withey

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion." — Martin Mull

But those people are gone. Those people must be gone. They cannot survive in a world like this. — Victoria Aveyard

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions. — Shannon L. Alder

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe. — George Herbert

I'm 20 miles from 200 miles from nowhere. — Jarod Kintz

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men. — George Gilder

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength. — Franz Kafka

Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on. — Leslie Dewan

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.' — Adrian Rogers

I think that you can love people without it being the great love. — Taylor Swift

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq. — Charles Rangel

Poets make the best topographers. — W.G. Hoskins