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As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents ... — Paul Johnson

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. — Alva Myrdal

Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world. — Henry A. Kissinger

Continents of memory had been lost. — Alan Lightman

There are two lost continents ... We are one: the lovers. — Tom Robbins

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore. — Brian Tracy

The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness. — Gautama Buddha

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead. — Robert D. Kaplan

I'm a child of the universe, I have lived in almost all continents. — Micere Githae Mugo

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there ... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating. — Dan Chaon

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives. — D.H. Lawrence

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered. — Fernando Meirelles

you ruptured
the love lakes
of my longing
and scattered
the continents
of my heart. — K.Y. Robinson

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men. — Jules Verne

It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on. — Herbert Harold Read

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. — Martha Gellhorn

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language. — Billy Graham

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents. — Tina Brown

I used the excess dirt to make a few more continents. Australia is my best work, I think,
-Bunnymund — William Joyce

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. — Kristin Scott Thomas

I'd have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled. — Nova Peris

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. — Mother Teresa

Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account. — Romano Prodi

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward. — George Steiner

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia. — Dorothy Parker

All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers. — Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it? — Sam Worthington

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America. — Susumu Tonegawa

Stories can actually rearrange continents if they're told long enough. — Scott McClanahan

The earth does not need new continents, but new men. — Jules Verne

Their bodies fit perfectly like this, two continents pulled eons ago but now rejoined. — Scott Westerfeld

You show me continents, I see the islands, You count the centuries, I blink my eyes. — Bjork

Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent. — Sunil Bharti Mittal

It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples. — Mahatma Gandhi

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. — James Shikwati

I have a trunk containing continents. — Beryl Markham

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders. — Curt Sachs

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter. — Niall Williams

Facebook has been spreading across the continents faster than a highly contagious Asian bird flu! — Gemini Adams

That night we slept apart, all those unexplored continents reemerged on the atlas of your bed. — Rosalyn D'Mello

I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm. — John Green

You've no idea ... my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He was white in bold seas, ans black in continents... — Enid Bagnold

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little. — Douglas Wilder

In fact, the possibility was so far out of the question, the possibility and the question were on separate continents. — Tessa Dare

Rocks crumble, make new forms,
oceans move the continents,
mountains rise up and down like ghosts
yet all is natural, all is change. — Anne Sexton

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents. — Henry Ward Beecher

I'm a fan of the volcanic imagination. It bubbles and boils below the surface; it rumbles. When it erupts, continents are born. — C. Alexander London

I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent. — Mark Shuttleworth

In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents. — Alex Shoumatoff

It feels like flying and landing to all the continents of the world with the use of my imaginary paper that can floats in the air. — Alexina Benavidez

'The Kumars' ... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? — Jared Diamond

Single universe, many planets,many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others. — Hamzatribah

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny. — Nelson Mandela

A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows. — Adam Zagajewski

Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time. — Azar Nafisi

Hotel Conundrum: The continental breakfast. What is it that makes continents so shitty at providing an adequate breakfast? — Demetri Martin

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed — Barack Obama

Capes are the poetic points of continents. They are the summits of our sailing souls. — Kaci Cronkhite

Even the continents drift. — George Will

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. — Cleopatra

'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The earth does not want new continents, but new men. — Jules Verne

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. — William Golding

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent. — Bertrand Russell

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation. — Ezra Pound

I should've told you that you could rearrange continents with that smile of yours. — Shinji Moon

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation. — Edmund Barton

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. — Henry David Thoreau

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness. — Os Guinness

The place had clearly been terraformed within an inch of its life; there was just no other way continents ended up perfectly square. — Rachel Bach

It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God. — Christopher Columbus

Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! ( ... Greenland & Australia). — Dorothy Parker

India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England — Duncan Fletcher

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them. — Tracy Morgan

I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such. — Leslye Walton