224 Quotes About Maps

  • Author Jennifer E. Smith
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    That was the thing about playing with a band,... There was always someone else to rescue you when it seemed certain you might fall behind. Only the solo acts left themselves open to those kinds of disasters.

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  • Author Colin McEvedy
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    Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

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  • Author Judith Schalansky
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    Whether an island such as Easter Island can be considered remote is simply a matter of perspective. Those who live there, the Rapa Nui, call their homeland Te Pito Te Henua, 'the navel of the world'. Any point on the infinite globe of the Earth can become a centre.

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  • Author Hanan Ashrawi
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    Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,

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  • Author Laurie Halse Anderson
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    It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

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  • Author Sherman Alexie
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    At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

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  • Author Björk
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    There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

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