Top 100 Quotes About A Place
#1. Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."
He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.
Mitch Albom
#2. Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.
Helen Hunt
#4. Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment passed through the mind's eye until it fell to the ground like a rotten mango, perfectly useless, uselessly perfect
Yaa Gyasi
#5. I longed to know what it felt like to have one person eclipse everything bad in your life - be a place of pure joy.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#6. seek those joys that fade not, which are laid up in a place of bliss - safe there for those who go in search of them.
Mary Godolphin
#7. Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as you can for capturing you. Fight them all the way.
Robin Hobb
#8. Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.
Gary Carter
#9. All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die ... Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.
Isaac Asimov
#10. You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If the tradewinds are blowing, it gets chilly and sometimes you don't catch a wave for an hour.
Rob Machado
#11. Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror
Carl Jung
#12. Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams ... A place of peace and harmony ... that's the kind of land I invision.
Masashi Kishimoto
#13. Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society ...
John Muir
#14. Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#15. Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
Jacqueline Woodson
#16. Be here now. It keeps us in a place of love, not fear.
Alysia Reiner
#17. When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#18. Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
Kevin Rose
#19. People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.
Steve Schirripa
#20. When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.
Evanescence
#21. Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.
Marilyn Monroe
#22. He thought living in a place where there were eagles to watch might encourage some pretty good dreams.
Larry McMurtry
#23. A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Germaine Greer
#24. As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
No ... eight days a week.
Alan Bradley
#25. I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#26. Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the male-to-female side of the coin have done sex work. I've done it myself for a couple of years. It's a place we can make a living and have some fun doing it. It's a place we seem to fit in.
Kate Bornstein
#27. She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.
Nora Roberts
#28. The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.
G.K. Chesterton
#29. We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.
Douglas Leone
#30. The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.
Robert Neelly Bellah
#31. I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.
Jane Fonda
#32. I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.
Aimee Bender
#33. In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.
Hillel The Elder
#34. Will tell you, for I am not sure if you properly understand as yet how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.
Teresa Of Avila
#35. Each of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries are more often than not ineffective.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#36. Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
#37. The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.
Henry Miller
#38. Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
Ben Marcus
#39. I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
Lady Gaga
#40. Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
Richard Bach
#41. It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.
Drew Barrymore
#42. A family is a place where a body can share the no-account things, can talk of the little matters important only to ourselves, where we can laugh and cry and tell of the day-by-day happenings and then forget them.
Louis L'Amour
#43. Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
Michael Simkins
#44. Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
#45. Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#46. For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
Chris Wedge
#47. Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
James Baldwin
#48. It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.
Tim Cope
#49. The more adept we become at feeling love and gratitude for all life's earthly learning experiences, the more quickly we are reminded that, whatever hardship may be placed before us, it is our choice always to return to a place of love and gratitude and to give thanks for all that still remains.
Molly Friedenfeld
#50. I'd like to hold you in the mountains, like to kiss you by the sea. Take you far, far from here to a place where you feel free. Cause we are safe, we are true, we are going to make it through. Crashing worlds, falling stars, breaking all of who we are- I want infinity with you.
Courtney C. Stevens
#51. Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.
William Golding
#52. Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
Alan Cohen
#53. Behold, Mr. Clavain: Chasm City. A place I have to come to know and, while not actually love, perhaps not to detest with quite the same missionary zeal as when I first arrived.
Alastair Reynolds
#54. What a surprising turn of events. He'd only come out here to question the intruder he'd spotted while watching from his stone repose. Instead, he'd found a gargoyle who needed a place to stay. Not what he'd expected.
Lisa Carlisle
#55. Gaza 1948: Gaza was not a refugee camp yet, just a place designated for Palestinian people when the state of Israel came begin. But day by day it filled up with people who had no place else to go to.
Izzeldin Abuelaish
#56. We wanted proper outback: a place where men were men and sheep were nervous.
Bill Bryson
#57. PEACE DOES NOT MEAN TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO NOISE, TROUBLE, OR HARD WORK. PEACE MEANS TO BE IN THE MIDST OF ALL THOSE THINGS AND STILL BE CALM IN YOUR HEART. THAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF PEACE.
Various
#58. It feels like coming home - not just to any home, but a childhood home, a place left behind a lifetime ago; it's the familiarity of walking up stairs and knowing exactly which one is going to creak.
Paula Hawkins
#59.
Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from ... THE MANSION page 106
William Faulkner
#60. How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.
Libba Bray
#61. I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.
Albert Einstein
#62. Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.
Martha Stewart
#63. Hiro feels even at this moment that something has been torn open in the world and that he is dangling above the gap, staring into a place where he does not want to be.
Neal Stephenson
#64. According to this view, love is simply a direction, not a place, and burns itself out with the attainment of its goal, the possession (in bed or otherwise) of the loved one.
Alain De Botton
#65. Peace is a place where your heart is free to become the more beautiful you.
Bryant McGill
#66. Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.
Mary E. Pearson
#67. I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
Tony Kushner
#68. A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."
James E. Myers
#69. Afterward he remembered only the feeling that he was about to leave somewhere small and rational - a place that made sense - for somewhere huge and old that didn't.
Neil Gaiman
#70. This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.
Phil Donahue
#71. Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.
Nora Ephron
#72. You know what they say, there's a time and a place for decaf: Never and in the trash." I
Emma Scott
#73. There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.
Cliff Sloan
#74. I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
Yoko Ono
#75. If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?
Jerry Stahl
#76. In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
Richard Louv
#77. If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.
Raymond Pettibon
#78. Love is not a word or an idea or even a place to go to or a thing to strive for. It is not something to grasp and smother and mold and change. It cannot be orchestrated, played, controlled or manipulated. You can not cup it tenderly in your open hand or wish it into being through fervent prayer.
Vanessa G. Foster
#79. If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products.
Barbara Kingsolver
#80. It's great to have a place of my own, but I still see my family often, as we are very close.
Anthony Howell
#81. Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
Carl Jung
#82. When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
Michel Gondry
#83. Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
[Harry Potter Beyond the Page: A Virtual Author Visit with J.K. Rowling (Scholastic / Stacks webcast, October 11, 2012)]
J.K. Rowling
#85. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
Arthur Erickson
#86. In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#87. I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can ... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven
#88. I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
Mahesh Bhupathi
#89. You didn't like to travel. You rarely went abroad. You would spend your time in your bedroom. It seemed useless to you to travel for miles in order to stay in a place less comfortable than your own.
Edouard Leve
#90. You couldn't leave your home planet while it still contained a place like Azkaban.
You had to stay and fight.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#91. And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.
Ben Edlund
#92. Penalties were established for refusal to work, for leaving a place of employment to seek higher pay, and for the offer of higher pay by employers. Proclaimed when Parliament was not sitting, the ordinance was reissued in 1351 as the Statute of Laborers.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#93. I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.
Warwick Thornton
#94. I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.
Katherine Jenkins
#95. 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
#96. Bok strongly believed that good art should find a place in public buildings where large numbers of persons might find easy access to it.
Edward Bok
#97. He could no longer remember his real name. He felt empty and cleansed, in that place that was not a place. He was without form, and void. He was nothing.
Neil Gaiman
#98. Belief was a place that people didn't leave until they absolutely must.
Michel Faber
#100. 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
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