Top 100 From Where Quotes
#1. It must be nice to be righteous; from where I stand it looks like fucking lunacy.
Scott Lynch
#2. When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#3. He said you must always step forward from where you stand.
Eliot Pattison
#4. Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.
Megan Whalen Turner
#6. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
Bob Dylan
#7. Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.
Dwyane Wade
#8. Before we can consider which way to go from where we are, we must agree on where we want to end up. If our desire is to become happy, then let's begin by having a realistic understanding of what it means to be happy.
Will Bowen
#9. Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities.
Deepak Chopra
#10. It's been really slow obviously, but I'm not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully the next step doesn't have any hurdles.
Sidney Crosby
#11. For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down.
Susan Straight
#12. There are some incredible television shows. It seems a sort of succumbed place to be. At the moment, I'm quite happy sort of flitting from place-to-place. I wouldn't want to relocate from where I am right now in terms of where I live.
Simon Pegg
#13. You will eat from where you work with all your strength
Sunday Adelaja
#14. I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.
Matt Bomer
#15. I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.
August Wilson
#16. Birds prefer trees with dead branches,' said Caravaggio. 'They have complete vistas from where they perch. They can take off in any direction.
Michael Ondaatje
#17. we got plenty of moonshine to celebrate with. It's not legal yet in Florida, but from where we come from it's like mother's milk, straight from the teat." He smiled wide, and I noticed he had more than a few teeth missing.
Amanda Carlson
#18. I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.
Vladimir Guerrero
#19. My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.
Haile Gebrselassie
#20. Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it ...
Red Cloud
#21. Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.
Henri Nouwen
#22. [death] ... the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
George Washington
#23. Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.
Ron Franscell
#24. To get from where we don't want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction.
Andy Stanley
#25. I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
Alice Meynell
#26. I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and sculng looks good to me.
Sam
Aaron Sorkin
#27. Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same
Drake
#28. Get plugged in at your church. Find a way to invest yourself. Let's change the church's problem from 'Where do we find the help we need?' to 'What do we do with all the help we have?' The revolution begins now; and it starts with you.
Tyler Edwards
#30. Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.
Marisha Pessl
#31. When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
Dolly Parton
#32. From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
N. T. Wright
#33. The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.
Romesh Gunesekera
#34. Every communication has as its goal to take the audience from where they are at the start of your presentation, which is Point A, and move them to your objective, which is Point B. Recognizing
Jerry Weissman
#35. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.
Rod Blagojevich
#36. I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where
Patch Adams
#37. And bring me back that knife," she added. "It's my favorite one."
Kell shook his head, and freed the blade from where it had lodged in the wood. "They're all your favorite.
V.E Schwab
#38. Everywhere the people are of mixed and imported stock. One group has followed another: one longed for what another scorned; one was driven out from where he had expelled others. So fate has decreed that nothing maintains the same condition forever.
Seneca.
#39. Hold your horses. I'm coming." ...
"From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously."
The snow swam out of focus. "Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-liners straight.
Ilona Andrews
#40. You are never left out from the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you're at. It's always up to you.
Renae A. Sauter
#41. Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!
Waylon Jennings
#42. You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It's always up to you.
Renae A. Sauter
#43. We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.
Mitt Romney
#44. Do I trust that where I am in life today - no matter how far it is from where I think I should be - can never limit God's ability to accomplish his will in my life?
Dave Harvey
#45. The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.
Matt Damon
#46. One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they're lodged beneath each fingernail.
Chuck Palahniuk
#47. I'm miles from where you are. I lay down on the cold ground, and I pray that something picks me up, and sets me down in your warm arms.
Snow Patrol
#48. You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.
Gene Simmons
#49. There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.
Richard Jackson
#50. Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.
Eckhart Tolle
#51. On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.
Jaggi Vasudev
#52. One may also inhabit the limen, the place in between realities, a gap 'between and betwixt' universes of sense that construe social life and persons differently, an interstice from where one can most clearly stand critically toward different structures.
Maria Lugones
#53. As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.
Wendell Berry
#54. And I knew that my only way through this mass of simultaneous future outcomes was to hold tight to the idea that it was possible to get to OK from where we were now. Not assured. Just possible.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#55. Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.
Yashvardhan Shukla
#56. I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.
Robert Lloyd
#57. Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given ... this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
Bret Lott
#58. Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on more than anything. I'm actually trying to go back from where I was running from ... the more essential things that I was ignoring.
Richard Ashcroft
#59. The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.
David Morrissey
#60. From where in hell did he come from?
Where have you been all this time?
Karen Swart
#61. Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.
Sylvia Earle
#62. If you don't place yourself where you could fail, you'd never have a place from where you'd succeed.
Dumebi Onwordi-Okonji
#63. The amount of time it takes you to get from where you are to where you want to be, is only the amount of time it takes you to change the vibration within you. Instant manifestation could be yours if you could instantly change the vibration.
Esther Hicks
#64. We carry our families like anchors, rooting us in storms, making sure we never drift from where and who we are. We carry our families within us the way we carry our breath underwater, keeping us afloat, keeping us alive.
Erika Swyler
#65. Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were going - and moved on.
Heather King
#66. Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff," says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. "Well, half of half of our faction."
"In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar," Lynn says.
Veronica Roth
#67. My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
Darin Strauss
#68. It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.
Richard D. James
#69. The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.
Marcel Proust
#70. Start from where you are. Empower yourself. Adjust habits. Triumph over those habits -- this is how we EAT folks! This is how it's done!
Nancy S. Mure
#71. From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.
Robert Zemeckis
#72. I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.
Jeff Mangum
#73. I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.
Dave Eggers
#74. It's time to wake up to the fact that you're just another avatar in someone else's MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot.
Raph Koster
#75. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Samuel Johnson
#76. I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.
Josephine Jacobsen
#77. But already this isn't quite right. The first apartment I had wasn't on the island at all. It was in Brooklyn Heights, a few blocks away from where I would have been living in the alternate reality of accomplished love, the ghostly other life that haunted me for almost two full years.
Olivia Laing
#78. I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.
Ralph Stanley
#79. From where I'm sitting,
I AM the centre of the Universe!
Sebastyne Young
#80. Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two in my past, it seemed that a book was the only thing that stood between me and near insanity.
Lisa Kleypas
#81. Happiness, or contentment, comes from where we look and what we believe, not from what we have.
Lydia Brownback
#82. While we must always begin from where we are, we need not stay where we are.
Neal A. Maxwell
#83. You are beautiful as always, Violet, he murmured. His parents smiled at us from where they sat sipping wine. There. Every single one of us was smiling.
It was all very pleasant, even if my cheeks were starting to hurt.
Alyxandra Harvey
#84. My best days are ahead of me and I choose not to let where I've been to stop me from where I am going.
Jamie Larbi
#85. You have the knowledge and ability to live sustainably on this planet but it's a hard road from where you are now. It's no longer a matter of what you know - you know enough. From here on, it's a test of whether you care - do you care enough?
Mark Avery
#86. Claire glanced up from where she had been pacing, twisting the two-carat canary diamond ring on her third finger. She had not noticed her mother's entrance. She stopped pacing. She knew how much her mother loved that
Mara Stone
#87. PSALM 121 I v lift up my eyes to w the hills. From where does my help come? 2 x My help comes from the LORD, who y made heaven and earth.
Anonymous
#88. God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about
Dodie Smith
#89. Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.
Richie Norton
#90. Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries
where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.
Libba Bray
#91. I don't have to shoot from more than two feet. I'm top 50. I've got 23,000 from where I shoot.
Shaquille O'Neal
#92. Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
Henry A. Kissinger
#93. Whether you are someone who has been working for many years, or someone just starting down that path, or someone who is still studying, your journey to financial well-being is not far from where you are now.
Bob Proctor
#94. Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
Ambrose Bierce
#95. Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless."
"He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit.
"From where?"
"Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west ... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.
J.D. Robb
#97. Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.
Julie Connor
#98. We've come a long way, from where we've been. I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.
Vin Diesel
#99. This would never have happened in my day," Archeye commented from where he sat in front of the elders' den. "What's next? Kit warriors?
Erin Hunter
#100. The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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