Quotes of: New-territory Keyword

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public ...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Six month of sitting home, six month of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, going out, sleeping, getting drunk and sleeping again. Oh no, wait, I was busy with something, I was doing some renovations in my new apartment. Which legally became mi...

The New York Doll

You should make a new bucket whilst you still have the old one.

Berber

Don't throw away your old shoes until you have a new pair.

German

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.

Portuguese

The alley and the music all fell away, and there was nothing but her and the rain and Jace, his hands on her. . . He made a noise of surprise, low in his throat, and dug his fingers into the thin fabric of her tights. Not unexpectedly, they ripped, a...

City of Fallen Angels

Moses threw the spent cigarette butt to the ground. It bounced once then lay still. A lazy wisp of smoke drifted towards the reaching shadows. He pushed himself to his feet and brushed flakes of grit from the seat of his jeans. Stuffing his hands in ...

Moses Garrett / Angerland

I wonder, what kind of life would I have had if it hadn’t been for my mother’s tea-and-cookie parties? Perhaps it’s because of them that I’ve never thought of women as my enemies, as territories I have to conquer, but always as allies and fri...

In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of András Vajda

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when its literary tropes are all too familiar, its ...

Tim Parks

Altamirano: Why must they fight? Why can't they return to the jungle? Gabriel: Because this is their home. Did you know this was going to be your decision? Altamirano: Yes. Gabriel: Then why did you come, Your Eminence? Altamirano: To persuade you no...

The Mission

Col. Quaritch: [addressing marines] Everyone on this base, every one of you, is fighting for survival, and that's a fact. There's an aboriginal horde out there massing for an attack. These orbital images tell me that the hostile numbers have gone fro...

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Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Cat's Cradle

Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.

The Cost of Discipleship

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

City of Glass

Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

E poi ci sono quelli che credono che le vecchie relazioni possano essere rivissute e fatte nuove. Ma perfavore se ti senti in quel modo non chiamare non scrivere non arrivare...

Come On In!: New Poems

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected

THIS IS A COMPLIMENT? You're incrediburgable she said which is to say You're a little like incredible but a lot more like a hamburger.

Charting New Waters

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

The Essentials of Life

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Embassytown