“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”
John Fowles (1926–2005) British writer
Source: Master of Love and Mercy: Cheng Yen, p. vi
“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”
John Fowles (1926–2005) British writer
“Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.”
Herbert Spencer book Social Statics
Pt. IV, Ch. 30 : General Considerations
Social Statics (1851)
David Hilbert (1862–1943) German prominent mathematician
Quoted in Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971) by Howard Whitley Eves
“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at Royal Albert Hall, London (18 March 1931).
The 1930s
“If I cared about what you thought, I'd be writing for National Geographic or something.”
Jim Goad (1961) Author, publisher
ANSWER Me!
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
“For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.”
Edward Bernays (1891–1995) American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer
Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102
On why he read Playboy
“Marvellous mercies and infinite love.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Les Noyades.
Undated