Top 200 Terrain Quotes & Sayings

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.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain.

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.

To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

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.

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.

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

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.

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.

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.

I believe in doing roles that make me explore new terrain as an actor.

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.

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.

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

Our soldiers in Siachen are performing their duty with great courage and fortitude, even in extreme conditions and treacherous terrain.

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.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

Believe the terrain, not the map

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

The biggest of the big ideas that guided the strategy during the surge was explicit recognition that the most important terrain in the campaign in Iraq was the human terrain - the people - and our most important mission was to improve their security.

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.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

At the top of my list for terrain that I hate navigating through, it is definitely the mangrove.

When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.

Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

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.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain

I haven't really done a whole lot of daring stuff. Like when I go snowboarding, I don't go in the terrain park.

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.

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.

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.

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.

I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC.

Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren't so many human victims.

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

I see the Christian world like this: we've inherited a divided map of the truth, and each of us has a piece. Our traditions teach us that no one else has a valid map and that our own church's piece shows us all the terrain and roads that exist. In fact, there is much more terrain, more roads, and more truth for us to see if we can accept and read one another's maps, fitting them together to give us a clearer picture of the larger Christian tradition.

Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

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.

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.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

Terrain has seen a strong uptick in brand awareness and direct-to-consumer traffic from their inclusion in the Anthropologie Group.

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.

We can see that immigration has become favorable terrain for the development of Islamism.

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.

The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.