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“The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”

World May Hard Hands Eye Moving Courses Strong Weak Deeds Wheels Elsewhere Quests Fellowship Of The Ring Small Hands

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.”

Thinking Knows Happens Left Fool Amount Elsewhere

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.”

Source: The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].

“...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.”

Kind Home Body Protect Survival Originals Species Preserves Gym Elsewhere Site Abandonment Wildlife Accommodate Exertion Habitat Vanishing

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.”

Ifs Wells Community Struggle Resistance Elsewhere Concrete Resonance

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”

Existence Solutions Elsewhere Imaginary Surrealism Surrealist

Author:Andre Breton

“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”

Real Self Wander Elsewhere Far Away Real Self Siddhartha

Author:Hermann Hesse

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

Inspirational Soul Ends Spiritual Travel My Soul Elsewhere Sufi I Hate You Sufi Love

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going”

Light Moving Water Path Saws Color Rivers Wide Familiar Elsewhere Light And Color Moving Water

Book:The Giver Quartet

Source: The Giver Quartet

“It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.”

Ifs Speak Common Middle Ancient East Officials Maps Middle East Elsewhere Jars Peanuts

Book:Orientalism

Source: Orientalism

“The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”

Men Giving Children Book Hands Pain Choices Memories Boys Acceptance Color Speech Laughter Gates Awards Elsewhere Magnificent Giver Unsafe Truth And Love Acceptance Speech Love Laughter

Book:The Giver

Source: The Giver

“Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.”

Way Different Would Be Elsewhere Arbitrary

Author:Frances Mayes

“In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.”

Knows Men Stills Light Young Night Fall Universe Stars Morning Path One Day Shadow East Dawn Elsewhere

Book:Against the Fall of Night

Source: Against the Fall of Night

“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”

Hope Food Poet Cooking Locals Culinary Valleys Elsewhere Cheese

Author:W. H. Auden

“Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.”

Men May Made Facts Wisdom Science Wise Words Of Wisdom Sitting Knees Nonsense Elsewhere Sheer Indulge Indulge In Dummy

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.”

Doe Might Breakfast Elsewhere Wickedness Bedtime Colossal

Author:Gregory Maguire

“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”

May Found Lost Ignorance Lessons Ordinary Miracle Sacred Scared Neighbor Flight Daily Life Elsewhere Family And Friends Miraculous Backyards Confronting Neighbors Friends

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.”

Ifs Mind Facts Eye Stars Attention Heard Cat Elsewhere Counting

Book:The Snack Thief

Source: The Snack Thief

“The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.”

Made Country Prepared Wounds Elsewhere Concrete Thrust

Book:Remembering

Source: Remembering

“For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)”

World Mind Art Form Certain Principles Astronomy Treated Visible Elsewhere Genesis Let Him Go

Author:John Calvin

“I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”

People Littles House Space Sea Land Cold Elsewhere Wet Fog Sidewalk Streaming Canals

Author:Albert Camus

“. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.”

Feels War Character Stories Grows Cold Battle Climate Winter Storm Tales Superiors Native Flaws Peculiar Elsewhere Veteran War Veteran Character Flaws Cold Climate

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.”

Needs Sometimes Play Whole Feelings Life Is Certain Walks Too Much Dog Cat Boxes Buying Pet Elsewhere Cleaning Lap Curls Vets Cleaning Up Purring Pet Food

Book:The Reader

Source: The Reader

“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”

Needs Persons Love Is Convinced Elsewhere

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere, we shall demonstrate an important connection between these disturbances and genital cancer in women, which is so common. Thus, the "deadning of the pelvis" has the same function as the deadening of the abdomen, i.e., to avoid feelings, particularly those of pleasure and anxiety.”

Men Wells Important Feelings Pleasure Common Anxiety Connections Function Responsible Cancer Elsewhere Disturbance Abdomen

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”

I've Learned Bitterness Elsewhere I Have Learned Harbors Art Of Happiness Docks

Author:Andy Rooney

“One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.”

Knows Men Wells Looks May Children Littles Home Joy Interest Wife Minutes Ordinary Fellows Assuming Affair Practicals Elsewhere Trusted One Minute Jogging Live And Let Live

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

“I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.”

Said Stills Soul Alive Heard Mines Smart Unhappy Fairy Elsewhere Ache

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.”

People Two Fall Mystery Falling In Love Elsewhere

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.”

Ifs Looks Eye Joy Suffering Evil Ready Taste Guilt Useless Elsewhere Cult Live In The Now Caviar Evil Eye Acquired Taste

Author:Erica Jong

“. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.”

Moments Despair Odd Elsewhere Like Something Suspended

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.”

Men World Children Whole Peace Towns Whole World Heroic Elsewhere Yards Mills Railroads Children Playing Stranded Separate Peace

Book:A Separate Peace

Source: A Separate Peace

“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”

Want Trying Sometimes Play Games Waiting Loses Identity Lovers Late Busy Elsewhere Ahead Of Time Punctual

Author:Roland Barthes

“An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.”

People Years Littles Gone Objects Authority Six Built Towns Edges Selling Destroyed Shirts Elsewhere Devoted T Shirt Six Year Olds

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.”

“Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”

World Hands Eye Moving Courses Deeds Rings Wheels Elsewhere Fellowship Of The Ring Middle Earth Galadriel Small Hands Elrond

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.”

Thinking Giving Moving Speak Language Walks Silence Our Lives Mountain Elsewhere Time To Think

Author:David Levithan

“War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”

People Ifs Has Beens War Seems Happens Would Be Imagination Forever Mankind Jokes Victim Majority Dues Bitter Behave Cosmic Elsewhere Atrophy

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.”

Rooms Shapes Our Future Elsewhere Again And Again Giver Selected All Alone

Book:The Giver Quartet Omnibus

Source: The Giver Quartet Omnibus

“She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.”

Hands Saws Greatness Understood Died Seeking Elsewhere Chasing

Author:Abraham Verghese

“She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.”

Ifs Needs Believe Soul Reason Play Dream Body Lasts Joy Night Saws Journey Materials Died Breaths Elsewhere Comprehension Attainment Firmament

Book:The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.”

“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”

Looks Elsewhere Can Not Invisibility

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons with elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions--all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced.”

“Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag.”

“Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed.”

Believe Hard Sleep Rooms Wall Bed Window Corners Spots Chests Disappointed Elsewhere Expecting Apartment Closets Interiors Royal Hard To Believe

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.”

Way Heart May Said Stills Enough Hands Romance Destiny Knowing Smart Weakness Luck Blind Grateful Definitions Wander Intimacy Elsewhere Plates Be Grateful Spit Being Smart Always Knowing

Author:Kamila Shamsie

“A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”

Hours Quality Minutes Length Elsewhere

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.”

Heaven Republic Elsewhere His Dark Materials

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”

People Moments Turns Difficult Loss Changed Elsewhere

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

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