#displace

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world? ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#cannot #citizens #could #displaced #injustice

I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#displaced #hero #longing #life

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

#directly proportional #displaced #displacement #electron #equilibrium

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#abstract #displacement #feels #moment #off

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#best #criticism #displaced #freud #kind

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#best #civil #civil society #displace #economic

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. ↗

— Amy Tan

#different #displaced #eyes #fresh #get

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#been #displacement #energy #established #had

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#displaced #families #hearts #homes #horrific

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. ↗

— Paul de Man

#displaced #linguistic #name #predicament