Quotes About Staying In One Place

#1. Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.

Tracy K. Smith

#2. We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

Brent Smith

#3. Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.

Cassandra Clare

#4. The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

Paul Theroux

#5. I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

Frances O'Connor

#6. One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

Alan Moore

#7. You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

Karen Maezen Miller

#8. I like smoking at home. I like it to be one of the last things I do that day. I don't wake and bake at all; I couldn't do that. If I'm waking and baking, then I'm staying inside my place the rest of the day. I can't start my day off high.

Hannibal Buress

#9. I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#10. The world is such a big place; staying in one town your whole life, is like never leaving your house.

Chris Geiger

#11. However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.

Sela Ward

#12. Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

El-P

#13. We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

Jonathan Brown

#14. When it feels scary to jump, that's exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can't do.

J. C. Chandor

#15. People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

Jim Talent

#16. Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a child fond of nooks and corners, who curled up in closets, behind sofas, under dangling tablecloths, staying out of sight as well as out of mind, to ensure the terrain of the family did not change.

Celeste Ng

#17. A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.

Sam Levenson

#18. Weren't you always
distracted by expectation, as if every event
announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place
to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you
going and coming and often staying all night.) ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

#19. Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#20. I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to make themselves indispensible.

Miriam Karmel

#22. By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

Denis Waitley

#23. Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Jayne Mansfield

#24. Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place.

Harvey MacKay

#25. I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.

Sol Michael

#26. Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

Mary E. Pearson

#27. Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away from events for a bit, but I am finally at a comfortable place where I can honestly say, if you guys see me out on tour again it's because I am there to win, and I'm going to go 100%.

Andy Irons

#28. You don't get creative by staying in the same place.

Andy Law

#29. The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

James Howard Kunstler

#30. So are you officially moved in to her place yet, or just staying over there every night?

Cat Johnson

#31. Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

Jeanne Moreau

#32. Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

Susana Fortes

#33. If this all seems ambiguous, that's because it is; and if that troubles you, you'd hate it here; but if it gives you a feeling of relief, then you are in the right place and might consider staying.

Neal Stephenson

#34. I love this place, too, it's imprinted on me as much as you are. But in the end, it's still for you. I love you. I'm in love with you. I'm not going home. You are my home. I'm staying with you.

Karina Halle

#35. I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not saying mechanics don't matter. But I play my best when I focus on staying in a good place mentally and keep the technique simple.

Rickie Fowler

#36. People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#37. Kenny rested his hand on my leg, patting it delicately. His thoughts staying just that, thoughts, as we drove in silence, back to my prison of paradise, back to the one place I knew I could be happy, yet miserable, all in the same day.

Holly Hood

#38. The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.

Kelly Link

#39. It's not staying in the same place that's the problem," said Nanny, "it's not letting your mind wander.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.

Wendell Berry

#41. Doing the things you hate is living in a world of sin. Hell is staying in the place Jesus saved you from. That is, to live on your own, without God.

J.R. Rim

#42. Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#43. Keep it. When you have enough of my clothes at your place, I'll have to start staying overnight so I can get dressed."
"Dream on, Savoie."
"Every night, detective.

Nancy Gideon

#44. When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going ... everything else falls into place.

Christian Louboutin

#45. The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#46. For me, staying in place might mean staying with my own thoughts, even if the body keeps traveling. I might be experiencing new things, but I'm also here, with myself.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

#47. How many abused souls - dogs and humans alike - have remained in an unloving place because staying was far less terrifying than leaving?

Ted Kerasote