Displaced Quotes

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. Alberto Giacometti
Me Once Has-Been Object Constructed Tendency Facts Been Discover Impressions Moved Which Transformed Displaced Deeply Images
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space. Brian Greene
Space Big Universe Extra Other Slice Our String String Theory Dimension Ours Would Would-Be Some Cosmic Bread Which Theory Displaced Loaf
The CIA's always-useful World Fact book says that a staggering 6.3 million Colombians have been internally displaced (IDP) since 1985, with 'about 300,000 new IDPs each year since 2000,' the year Bill Clinton enacted Plan Colombia. Added up, that's 2.4 million people during Clinton's eight-year presidency. Greg Grandin
CIA Book People World Year Added Presidency Says About Colombia Fact Since New Been Clinton Up Staggering Plan Bill Bill Clinton Displaced Each Each Year Million Million People
I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be. Reiko Aylesworth
Soul First City Week New Know Felt Got How York New York Realized Then Really Euphoric Displaced
Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created. Arancha Gonzalez
Good Business Speak Benefits Opportunities Adequately Frankly Adjust Distribution About Share Failed New Policies Policy Trade Equip Accompany New Opportunities Domestic Unequal Did Being Created Workers Displaced Elites
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. Bill Gross
Political Myth Enough Software Those Machines Value-Added Jobs Higher Write Writers Without Era Replacement Accountants Modern May Modern Era Being Paying Displaced Even Medical Technicians
Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people. Chris Abani
Alone People Sometimes Sense Group Think Bit Find Emerging Part Feel Countries Economies Nomad Sort Am Very Themselves Many Displaced Whole
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. Dennis Potter
Best Writing Criticism Kind About Piece Freud Literacy Displaced
Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina. Donna Brazile
Family Every Member Katrina Displaced
The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example. Ed Miliband
Welcome Example Own Sets Our Relatively Vital Small Countries Because Been Displaced Comparison Millions Numbers
If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs. Ginni Rometty
You Technology Every Back Jobs Step Look Also Era Lot Created Displaced
'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment. Hidetaka Miyazaki
Natural Someone Environment French Been Natural Environment Displaced
The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job. J. R. Martinez
Home Me Honor Job Matters Our About Voice Feel Spokesman Come Like Educate Doing Lot America Who Displaced Thing
I wouldn't spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn't have to. But yet I feel somewhat displaced without him in the workplace... destroying my tools and leaving messes everywhere he goes. Jamie Hyneman
Work Tools Spend Everywhere Destroying Minutes Somewhat Outside He Feel Him Messes Without Leaving Five Goes Workplace Displaced Adam
As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends. Jane Green
Home People Drawn Find London About Someone Physically Emotionally Almost Make Am Years Years Ago Left Friends Families Stories Whether Fifteen Choice Who Connecticut Displaced Belong
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. Jo Bonner
History Natural People Writing Country Our Gulf Gulf Coast Impacted Only Area Fact Never Column Along Days Disaster Period Witnessed Been Five So Many People In Fact Natural Disaster Coast Many Displaced Homes Wide Millions Millions Of People
I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for. Jo Bonner
You Area Am Affected Been Friends Very Loved Storm Loved Ones Who Many Displaced Aware
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. Jonas Mekas
Home Organization First Few United Nations Brother About Weeks Dropped Feels New Make Got How October Camera Yes York Refugee Uprooted Nations New York Being Wanted After Persons Displaced Film United
One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me. Lynsey Addario
Day Home News Me Feeling Before Channels Dramatic Frame Later One Day Thousands Devastation Tens Tens Of Thousands Days Am Nonstop Scope Iraqi Iraqis Heartbreak Being Cannot Fleeing Displaced Capture Lives Staring Images Watching
The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. Martti Ahtisaari
Peace Rest Country Lost City Born Attacked Finland Part Along Fellow Became Still Years Person Soviet Soviet Union Childhood Eternally Then Union Displaced Found Mediator Origins Career
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation. Matthew Desmond
Building More Between Condemnation Were Than Eight Formal Informal Whether Landlord Displaced Milwaukee
The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights. Opal Tometi
Rights Human Rights Disrespect Neglect Plight Maintaining Haitian Practices Human Refusal Acknowledge Gross Inhumane Displaced Amount Violation Violence
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. Paul de Man
Death Name Linguistic Predicament Displaced
Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. Peter Diamandis
Innovators Airlines Entrenched Whether Large Displaced Railroads Disrupted
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest. Pieter Zeeman
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It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done. Romola Garai
Sad War People Responsibility Those More Fact Taken Sad Fact Countries Involved Been Iraq Lot Than Done Far Who Displaced Britain
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