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Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.
— Stephanie Osborn
The nostalgic is never a native but a displaced person who mediates between the local and the universal.
— Svetlana Boym
Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.
— John Zerzan
What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
— Wynton Marsalis
Bring Down The Walls
I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will no longer be kept quiet
Meek enough to drown today ... — Muse
I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will no longer be kept quiet
Meek enough to drown today ... — Muse
Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.
— Panashe Chigumadzi
Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.
— Donna Brazile
I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
— Siobhan Fahey
My quiltmaking is sandwiched, moved about, displaced between other activities and the crosscurrents of people's movements inside the place I live.
— Radka Donnell
Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one's adversaries to underestimate one's abilities."
~Sherlock Holmes — Stephanie Osborn
~Sherlock Holmes — Stephanie Osborn
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
— Baruch Spinoza
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
— Dennis Potter
If you are far away from your lover and family, if you have lost someone, if you feel a bit displaced in your own life: these stories are for you.
— Audrey Niffenegger
His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]
— Heather O'Neill
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
— Paul De Man
For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.
— Mary Livermore
Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.
— Steven F. Hayward
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.
— Hephzibah Menuhin
Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.
— John O'Donohue
I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
— Chrissie Hynde
Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.
— Ismail Haniyeh
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
— Richard Brookhiser
No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.
— J.W. Dunne
Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues.
— Cynthia Basinet
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.
— Anne McLellan
I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.
— Jorge Luis Borges
We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.
— Anna Politkovskaya
Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.
— Gregory Benford
I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop.
— Lailah Gifty Akita