Quotes About Dislocation

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.

But Quebec is an illuminating example of the truth that a decision is produced even more by the mental and moral dislocation of the command than by the physical dislocation of its forces.

Witchcraft localized anxiety at a dislocated time, as atomic war powered McCarthy rumors in the 1950s.

The Core truth of Jerusalem today, it seems to me, is a jagged dislocation between appearance and reality. Whatever you see here is not really what's going on.

The most bizarre occurrence has to be when I dislocated my wrist during a show in Germany in 1997.

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

The shock of a sudden death, Joan Didion attests, is "obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind.

atlanto-occipital dislocation

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

one attitude can be said to characterize America's regard for immigration over the past two hundred years it is the belief that while immigration was unquestionably a wise and prescient thing in the case of one's parents or grandparents, it really ought to stop now. Succeeding generations of Americans have persuaded themselves that the country faced imminent social dislocation, and eventual ruin, at the hands of grasping foreign hordes pouring into its ports or across its borders.

The exact meaning of the First Noble Truth is this: Life (in the condition it has got itself into) is dislocated. Something has gone wrong. It is out of joint. As its pivot is not true, friction (interpersonal conflict) is excessive, movement (creativity) is blocked, and it hurts.

Pain darkened the world. Pain dislocated. Turned one's own flesh and bones into a stranger's house, from which no escape seemed possible.

Outside, in the street beyond the two motionless Wickan guards, Gamet paused and looked up. Ancient light, is it? If so, then the patterns I see... May have died long ago. No, that does not bear thinking about. It is one of those truths that have no value, for it offers nothing but dislocation.

Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.

hip looked dislocated.

it's precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that seems real when it's merely an abstraction, namely that brain introduced or employed to great effect those methods of distortion, that dislocation

If Xi personally accepts Maoism, we should not be surprised he believes his Maoist campaign is popular across Chinese society. "Today's Chinese leadership—under pressure from rising expectations, social dislocation, and popular discontent—again finds itself trying to bridge a credibility gap with the Chinese public," write Evan Feigenbaum and Damien Ma in Foreign Affairs.

It seems incredible, in retrospect, that any state could proceed with so much hubris and so little information and planning to the dislocation of so many million lives. It seems, again in retrospect, a wild and irrational scheme which was bound to fail both the expectations of its planners and the material and social needs of its hapless victims.