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Terrain has seen a strong uptick in brand awareness and direct-to-consumer traffic from their inclusion in the Anthropologie Group. -- Richard Hayne
Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery... Terrain is often of more value than bravery... Bravery is of more value than numbers. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain. -- Helena Bonham Carter
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. -- Bono
When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context. -- Rory Stewart
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. -- Peggy Noonan
I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain. -- Ben Okri
It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot. -- Michael Kennedy
Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience. -- Mariella Frostrup
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain. -- Emily Giffin
There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain. -- Ron Eglash
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. -- Julian Schnabel
A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it. -- Judy Davis
If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. -- Antony Beevor
But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. -- Theodor Herzl
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. -- Daniel Bell
Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does. -- Dean Karnazes
Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery. -- Robert Dallek
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything. -- Lawrence Weschler
I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most. -- Andrea Hirata
What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful. -- Joss Whedon
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm. -- Christopher McDougall
You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box. -- Chuck D
Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. -- Joel Edgerton
First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game. -- Riz Ahmed
It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style. -- Martha Stewart
When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother. -- Rick Moranis
At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance. -- Colin Angle
Believe the terrain, not the map -- Brian Kernighan
Every terrain in life receives tear-rain. -- Junaid e Mustafa
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. -- Rebecca Solnit
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing, -- Claude Bernard
Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything. -- Louis Pasteur
Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky. -- Karen Marie Moning
It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain. -- Louis Pasteur
Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That. -- Hafez
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. -- Emile M. Cioran
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. -- DJ Spooky
No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own. -- Lynn Austin
At the top of my list for terrain that I hate navigating through, it is definitely the mangrove. -- Joe Teti
The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast. -- Joe Teti
And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain -- Dar Williams
Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/ -- Daniel Goleman
At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering. -- David Allen
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring. -- Heidi Julavits
We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries. -- Charles Koch
The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose. -- Natasha Leggero
I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC. -- Joe Lando
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground. -- Sun Bin
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road. -- Sharon Kay Penman
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians. -- Roy Fuller
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. -- Adrienne Rich
China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that. -- Wesley Clark
Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of view. -- Lucy R. Lippard
The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain. -- Hakeem Jeffries
It was just on a whole other level, getting to experience and ride that terrain. We spent a fair amount of time in the Hakuba Valley. -- Travis Rice
Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations. -- Noel Tichy
We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy. -- Sun Tzu
Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general. -- Sun Tzu
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness. -- Pope John Paul II
Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything. -- Laini Taylor
You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success. -- Tony Robbins
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease. -- Susan Sontag
The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are. -- Starhawk
Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot. -- Eyedea
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. -- Christopher McDougall
The terrain of Adam's Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing for special golf experiences on every single hole. -- Tom Weiskopf
I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other. -- Ted Ligety
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere. -- Eben Moglen

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