Top 100 Place Quotes
#1. We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about the lead. Lead in the biosphere is not good. Carbon in the atmosphere (over natural levels) is a problem.
William McDonough
#2. If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Every city, every town, hides beneath a certain amount of glamour that- either intentionally or not- can misdirect the eye or hide something worth finding. Learning to see through those glamours is part of the process of calling any place home.
Kate Milford
#4. What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.
Catherine Bybee
#5. The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
Chris Weitz
#6. Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. Steve Jobs had been known to ask: What are you passionate about in your life? "If this is just a job to you, it's the wrong place,
Carmine Gallo
#8. It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.
Seth Rogen
#9. There could not be a restoration of the gospel without freedom. God provided this country as the base of his operations in these the last days, a place where there would be freedom, where he could restore his gospel.
Ezra Taft Benson
#10. Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,
Grant me. Father, a servant's place.
Christina Rossetti
#11. Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#12. Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.
Madonna Ciccone
#14. The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!
James C. Scott
#15. What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
Paul Fleischman
#16. He looked about him in a confused way, as if he had lost his place in the book of his remembrance; and he turned his face to the fire, and spread his hands broader on his knees, and lifted them off and put them on again.
Charles Dickens
#17. The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen
Max Lucado
#18. Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.
Steven Erikson
#19. In fact, the figure in The Last Supper is not a woman: only the most partisan reading can place Mary Magdalene in the scene. Viewers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries would have read the painting quite differently.
Ross King
#20. Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.
Bob Sorge
#21. Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
Alexander Pushkin
#22. You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.
Jesse Schell
#23. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
George Lillo
#24. Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.
James Fenimore Cooper
#25. For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
William Least Heat-Moon
#26. I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.
Sarah Camp
#27. Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
Charles De Lint
#28. So here I was. I would live with Joe and Mom. I had no place else to go. Joe would carve the roast on Sundays. He would put up the Christmas tree.
Judy Blundell
#29. He mentioned Beethoven. She had read in the library about that musician - his name was pronounced with an a and spelled with a double e. He was a German fellow like Mozart. When he was living he spoke in a foreign language and lived in a foreign place - like she wanted to do.
Carson McCullers
#30. Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.
M.F. Moonzajer
#31. I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
Zhang Ziyi
#32. It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.
Daphne Guinness
#33. Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
Ruth Brown
#34. i could go if i wanted
share the floorboards with someone
in a place less haunted
but i like it here
and i'm happy to stay in this mess on my own
in this home i have built for myself in my bones
Savannah Brown
#35. The place where you are is the one where my mind must live, wherever I might travel.
George Eliot
#36. Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.
Antonin Artaud
#37. If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
Taylor Kinney
#38. I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways. About how somebody might ask you 'Where you at?' And they're not asking where are you sitting, where are you living, they're asking: 'How are you doing?
Justin Vernon
#39. These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#40. Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.
Jennifer Armstrong
#42. For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.
Haruki Murakami
#43. God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.
Marcus Garvey
#44. Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot.
'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.
James Patterson
#45. we as individual human entities would give less attention to what we want, to how we want to grow, to what we want to achieve, and more attention to how can we express the resident creative force that is inside of us, the world might be a far better place to live.
Cecil A. Poole
#46. The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed ... literary taste ... your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
Arnold Bennett
#47. Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
Edd Roush
#48. [H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?
Steve Hagen
#49. Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
Oswald Chambers
#50. Sometimes the way to let go of the dead is to put someone else in their place. Price
Aray Brown
#51. A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
Jean De La Bruyere
#52. I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.
Angelina Jolie
#53. But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.
John Green
#54. The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.
Dave Ramsey
#55. Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.
Joseph Campbell
#56. We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America
as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
D.H. Lawrence
#57. Explain to me again why we're at a whorehouse?"
Gwenvael sighed around his ale. "Because, my thick-headed
brother, if you want information about human men then you go to the
one place all human men come to eventually.
G.A. Aiken
#58. You don't get to a better place with God until you recognize that where you are is not as good.
James MacDonald
#59. It was so close to his own thoughts - that everything he knew was gone, but that this was here, in its place, this one bright thing.
C.S. Pacat
#60. I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended
Jane Austen
#61. She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.
Linda Hogan
#62. Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.
Daniel H. Wilson
#63. Not like you have anything to lose," Em added, coming up beside us. "Find Buck, then we'll ditch this place. I'm ready for a three-way with Ben and Jerry
Joanna Wylde
#64. There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside that we might see the truth.
Cliff Robertson
#65. It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.
Amy Stewart
#67. As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There
Penelope Wilcock
#68. I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.
Donald Miller
#69. For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.
Jermaine Jackson
#71. Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.
Larry Dixon
#72. I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.
Melissa McCarthy
#73. On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
Buffalo Bill
#74. Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum.
Michelle Madow
#75. Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.
R. Kelly
#76. If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
Chuck Palahniuk
#77. I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.
Margaret Atwood
#78. When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#79. But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data - something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.
Silas House
#80. I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.
Bill Vaughan
#81. Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.
Theophile Gautier
#82. I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
Kenzo Tange
#83. When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
Mary J. Blige
#84. The purpose of the voice of condemnation is to push you away from His presence -- that which is the very source of your victory. The purpose of the voice of conviction is to press you into the face of Christ." ~Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place.
Lori Hatcher
#85. I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
Larry David
#86. Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.
Iyanla Vanzant
#87. Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.
Scott Kelly
#88. I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.
John Assaraf
#89. We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.
Jane Goodall
#91. I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.
Ty Burrell
#92. Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
Yann Martel
#93. How can I lead people into the quiet place beside the still waters if I am in perpetual motion? How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place?
Eugene H. Peterson
#94. 747s always remind me of a fat, ugly old lady in the neighborhood where I used to live. Huge sagging breasts, swollen legs, dried up neckline. The airport, a likely gathering place for the old ladies. Dozens of them, coming and going, one after the other.
Haruki Murakami
#95. I've never thought about dying, But dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.
Stephenie Meyer
#96. Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson
#97. What if I never get out, what if I'm always filled with the ghost of that place haunting my dreams? The footsteps of lost feet here and there tripping to run as fast as they can. What if here is always there, where I'll always be?
Renee Thebeau
#98. The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
#99. If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.
Viggo Mortensen
#100. Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.
R.L. Hemlock
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