Displace Quotes Page 2

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

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.

I feel it my bounden duty to not only replace displaced bones, but also teach others, so that the physical and spiritual may enjoy health, happiness and the full fruition of our earthly lives.

A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.

We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up.

Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.

The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them.

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything.

Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life.

Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer.

Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

At some point I go back on the sand to get my sand legs.

Because it takes a good month for my legs to catch up with everything, with the displacement and all that stuff. So right now we're training on the beach six days a week for practice, and that's generally about two and a half hours. And then I'm doing pilates three times a week.

Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.

We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

The world must come together to confront climate change.

There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.

Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space.

A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St.

Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

I saw my mother in a different light.

We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.