Cantacuzino Atlas Quotes

All too often, we sanitize and simplify forgiveness, when in fact it's an arduous, exhausting task---messy, risky, and unpredictable. ~ Marina Cantacuzino

I have a new found respect for Atlas. ~ Solange Nicole

Yesterday, I never believed I'd do what I did today. ~ Cloud Atlas

He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas ~ Drake

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation. ~ James Atlas

Writing is the worst part of being a writer. ~ James Atlas

Step by step and the thing is done. ~ Charles Atlas

Everything was just going perfect, then exam comes... ~ Atlas Gondal

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere. ~ Joanna Lumley

To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true.
Atlas Shrugged ~ Ayn Rand

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ~ Charles Atlas

Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip. ~ J. Maarten Troost

I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man. ~ Charles Atlas

Through darkness comes light, through fear comes love, and through pain comes triumph. ~ Lilly Atlas

the proper mission of librarians: "to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. ~ The Atlas Of New Librarianship

If you have an advantage, you have to take advantage of it. ~ Teddy Atlas

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus. ~ Charles Atlas

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! ~ Charles Atlas

Fear is the root cause behind most of lies. And many big problems starts from lies, which can be prevented by following a simple rule. Just change Fear into Love! ~ Atlas Gondal

The truest success is but the development of self. ~ Charles Atlas

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball. ~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. ~ Clarence Thomas

ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It's like a large living library of geographic information. ~ Jack Dangermond

She smiled at him and the steel doors around his heart flew up. She was so beautiful, so brave, and so trusting. How was it this one woman made him question two decades of thinking? ~ Lilly Atlas

'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film. ~ Albert S. Ruddy

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been ... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler. ~ Teddy Atlas

The atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use. ~ Timothy Gowers

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. ~ Evelyn Waugh

My grandmother is a famous atlas. ~ Joanna Lumley

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. ~ Henry Rollins

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds. ~ David Mitchell

you can be happy wrapped
up in things that are bad for you. And things that
are good for you can make you absolutely miserable-Casey Snow ~ Katy Atlas

To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. ~ James Atlas

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things. ~ Dave Matthews

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. ~ Ken Jennings

In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas. ~ Gerhard Richter

A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition. Want, want, hope, hope, this is what your palm say, your palm is nothing but an atlas of impossible longings. ~ Anuradha Roy

You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers... ~ Nava Atlas

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy! ~ K. Hari Kumar

I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the atlas just to remind myself of all the names that would be worse than mine. ~ Tamara Summers

making people fear you in this world is not part of being a man. Being a man is leaving such a good impression everywhere you, that people would fear how the world would be without you ~ "J Atlas"

The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas's back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out from under the crushing weight of the sky. But it was too late.
"Noooooo!" He bellowed so hard it shook the mountain.
"Not again!"
Atlas was trapped under his old burden. ~ Rick Riordan

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. ~ Franz Kafka

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote:
I give you the world.
Have fun blowing it up. ~ Craig Ferguson

But this graveyard of dead books doesn't unnerve me. It reminds me that I had a deeper motive, one that only the approach of old age and death has unlocked. I wrote to answer questions I had - the motive of all art, whatever its ostensible subject. There were things I urgently needed to know. ~ James Atlas

Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone who opens an atlas wants everything at once, without limits
the whole world. This longing will always be great, far greater than any satisfaction to be had by attaining what is desired. Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world. ~ Judith Schalansky

Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile. ~ Jonathan Swift

The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn't get that way through artificial paraphernalia or through springs and wires and trick dumbells. He became the king of the jungle through constant natural use of every muscle in his body. ~ Charles Atlas

See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe.
I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home.
It makes me wonder if you practice your flow ... ~ One Be Lo

I can only drive slowly."
"That's all right."
"And I can only do left turns."
Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way! ~ Hilary McKay

The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper.
Renée wined. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged. ~ Joe Hill

There have been times I've wondered if I could ever allow myself to trust a guy. For the most part, I hate men because the only example I have is my father. But spending all this time with Atlas is changing me. Not in a huge way, I don't think. I still distrust most people. But Atlas is changing me enough to believe that maybe he's an exception to the norm ~ Colleen Hoover

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India ... However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders. ~ Dervla Murphy

It would be so easy to fall into him, let him hold her, pleasure her, comfort her. But when it was over, she'd still be alone, and a little weaker for having let him shoulder some of her burdens. Then the next time she needed to be tough and stand on her own, she'd remember what it felt like to have Hook, and it would be just a bit harder to go on alone. ~ Lilly Atlas

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd? ~ Tom Stoppard

I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Sorry, that's unfair. Let me warn you. I want you to follow, because no matter what you think you might know, we will always be one step, three steps- seven steps ahead of you, and just when you think you're catching up, that's when we'll be right behind you. And at no time will you be anywhere other than exactly where I want you to be because the closer you think you are, the less you'll actually see. ~ J Daniel Atlas

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths. ~ David Mitchell

Every nowhere is somewhere[...] ~ David Mitchell

Reason is the most naive of all superstitions. ~ Ayn Rand

All boundaries are conventions. ~ David Mitchell

Bribe cartographers to remove us from the atlas. ~ Melancton Hawks

Lily, Atlas says just keep swimming. - Ellen DeGeneres ~ Colleen Hoover

But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times. ~ Gerhard Richter

I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case. ~ Charles Stross

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
[Kung Fu Monkey
Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009] ~ John Rogers

That night we slept apart, all those unexplored continents reemerged on the atlas of your bed. ~ Rosalyn D'Mello

Barrow, who evidently had never seen an atlas, felt superior to Descartes, Rembrandt, and Beethoven. ~ Ken Follett

Our first rule here ... is that one must always see for oneself. ~ Ayn Rand

This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 ~ Alex Ayres

All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that's intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it. ~ James Atlas

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat. ~ Mark Twain

There's no way to make the irrational work. ~ Ayn Rand

I feel like something important has happened to meIs this possible? ~ David Mitchell

She had always been ... the motive power of her own happiness. ~ Ayn Rand

He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him. ~ Ayn Rand

There was an expert competence in his manner of working; his movements were easy, intelligently economical. ~ Ayn Rand

I like to deal with somebody who has no illusions about getting favors. ~ Ayn Rand

But why?"
"You goddamn fool, do you think I consider their question debatable? ~ Ayn Rand

If you intend to keep your word, don't talk about it, just do it. ~ Ayn Rand

They seemed to want her approval, without having to know whether she approved or not. ~ Ayn Rand

Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be? You don't just say it when you feel good. You don't just say it when you're not tired. You don't do it just when it's not sunny. You do it every day of your life. You do it when it hurts to do it, when it's the last thing in the world you wanna' do, when there are a million reasons not to do it. You do it because you're a professional. ~ Teddy Atlas

Atlas gazed out, as he always did, into infinite space, wishing he could be part of it, even for one hour. ~ Jeanette Winterson

She had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland. ~ Ayn Rand

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn. ~ Ayn Rand

The evaluation of an action as 'practical,' depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. ~ Ayn Rand

The dilemma for women who love to write may not have so much to do with finding the elusive literary voice, as with being reluctant to use the one that's already lurking inside, just waiting for the chance to speak up. Many of us, especiall,y those from the generations taught to be good, accommodating girls, are afraid of sounding too strong, too loud, too unconventional, or simply too much like the self we're afraid to reveal to the world. Most of us have at least an inkling of what form our writing voice should take, if only we might find the courage to reveal it. ~ Nava Atlas

Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts. ~ Ayn Rand

For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. ~ David Mitchell

He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies. ~ Ayn Rand

Sixsmith. I climb the steps of the Scot monument every morning and all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me. ~ Cloud Atlas 2012 Movie

He and I had always felt as if we were fellow survivors from some vanishing age or land, in the gibbering swamp of mediocrity around us. ~ Ayn Rand

She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness. ~ Ayn Rand

When he did not smile, his face looked inanimate, only his eyes remained alive, active with a cold, brilliant clarity of perception. ~ Ayn Rand

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others. ~ Ayn Rand

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically. ~ Ayn Rand

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness. ~ Ayn Rand

He had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act. ~ Ayn Rand

Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together. ~ Ayn Rand