Top 100 Quotes About Time And Place
#1. I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.
Octavia Butler
#2. I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.
Warren Buffett
#3. You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.
Todd McFarlane
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
David Mitchell
#7. Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted.
Wilferd Peterson
#8. My friend, doubt is the opposite of faith and the two cannot exist together in the same time and place. Either you believe or you don't. To build your faith and to absolutely hammer home the incredible importance of embracing the reality that success is a choice.
Clay Clark
#9. The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance ... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.
Terry Taylor
#10. The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#11. Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard.
Christine Ebersole
#12. With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
Gay Talese
#13. The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Flannery O'Connor
#14. To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.
Lydia Davis
#16. The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
Julian Bond
#17. Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.
George S. Patton
#18. Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
Suzy Menkes
#19. I finally meet a guy who's interesting and who seems to have a half-interest in me and it is TOTALLY the wrong time and place.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#20. Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
Uta Barth
#21. What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.
Elif Batuman
#22. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.
August Strindberg
#23. Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.
Jerome Kagan
#24. There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
Lin Yutang
#25. How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time and place for mourning? Is there ever an end to it? Can there ever be an end to it?
Rosario Morales
#26. When I look into your eyes, I lose all sense of time and place. Reason robbed, clear thought erased, I am lost in the paradise I find within your gaze.
Julianne Donaldson
#27. But here in the Lager there are no criminals nor madmen; no criminals because there is no moral law to contravene, no madmen because we are wholly devoid of free will, as our every action is, in time and place, the only conceivable one.
Primo Levi
#28. Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.
Douglas Massey
#29. I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings.
Robert Englund
#30. but what can I make of love when we are all born at a different time and place and only meet through a trick of centuries and a chance three steps to the left? you
Charles Bukowski
#32. We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and place where you'll soon forget you're turning pages and find yourself riveted to the destinies of characters who'll leave a lasting impression on your heart.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#33. [The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
Samuel Johnson
#34. Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time and place. It's to protect a soul. But to protect your soul, you have to have one to start with.
Peter Schjeldahl
#35. Truth out of season bears no fruit To me, that means two things. One: There's a time and place for every kind of knowledge to flourish. Two: The personal characteristics of great messengers are usually irrelevant.
The RZA
#36. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
Wendell Berry
#37. Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
#38. The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.
John Keegan
#39. This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.
Frank Herbert
#40. You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.
Julia Green
#41. All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.
Steve Reich
#42. Time and place, I have concluded, no matter how brief and no matter how small, can have infinite influence on one's wellbeing.
Marc Kuhn
#43. I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.
Orson Scott Card
#44. I was told, and indeed I saw several examples, that neither time nor place was much minded, and that I might hazard being equally careless of chronology and geography; but I piqued myself on having studied Aristotle, and scrupulously attended to the probabilities of time and place.
Charlotte Turner Smith
#45. If you were judged and paid based on what you actually contributed to your organization, then time and place wouldn't be a factor.
Cali Ressler
#46. There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.
Wumen Huikai
#47. I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.
George Strait
#48. Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.
Joan Lindsay
#49. I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
Gary Coleman
#50. Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.
Charles Duhigg
#51. Marx's critique of free markets and free trade can shed as much devastating light on our own actually existing capitalism as it did for the capitalism of Marx's own time and place.
David Harvey
#52. You can't choose the time and place, the when and where, and with whom you fall in love.
Sarah Tregay
#53. I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.
Drew Chadwick
#54. Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
Brian May
#55. I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.
Kevin Warwick
#56. Faithfulness works itself out in the context of complex social, political, economic, and cultural forces that prevail at a particular time and place.
James Davison Hunter
#57. We each have the innate ability to heal ourselves. To empower ourselves with natural solutions, instead of succumbing to life-altering chemicals. There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but it shouldn't be the first answer, nor the only form treatment.
Dana Arcuri
#58. Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved.
Stacy Schiff
#59. The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses.
Chris Matakas
#60. In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want to draw upon. Having said that, every single book so far has offered me surprises en route, and these include motifs that come forward as I am writing.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#61. The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.
Mireille Guiliano
#62. There's a balance. Time and place for everything.
Chris Sharma
#63. For sure, and we haven't found it yet. I understand why we have come to a time and place where we cannot touch the children at school for obvious reasons. I'm not that old, but back then some teacher would take our arm and squeeze it, and it was not fun.
Philippe Falardeau
#64. ...there was something in the texture of the weave that felt happy: the
echo of a memory so far down in his soul it was all emotion, a
burst of colour and warmth, adrift from time and place.
Alexia Casale
#65. There is a time and place for everything, you just have to wait for the right moment. Once it comes it will be the most beautiful and perfect thing possible!
Gloria Tesch
#66. Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!
Gaston Leroux
#67. Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
Tony Hillerman
#68. Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.
Jeffrey Tucker
#69. Agreements are always the product of time and place.
Larry Craig
#70. Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
John Milton
#71. If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
B.W. Powe
#72. Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism.
Robert D. Kaplan
#73. We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship.
Russell Eric Dobda
#74. I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.
Paul Dano
#75. But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written.
Will Schwalbe
#76. Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer
#77. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.
Christopher Hitchens
#78. When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an enchanted time and place where women are princesses and magnificent goddesses. In today's modern world we need to pause and indulge in beauty.
Claire Pettibone
#79. I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything
Beverly LaHaye
#80. It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
E.L. Doctorow
#81. Tradition evolves with time and place while holding strongly to certain formal, cultural, and personal principles. Nostalgia seeks the security of past forms without the inherent principles.
James Howard Kunstler
#82. Were we really born in the best possible time and place? Or is ours a random moment in infinity
just another among uncountable moments, each with its compensating pleasures and disappointments?
Christopher Ryan
#83. Clinging to an idealized past was a poison of sorts, that bastard Nostalgia, making people think there was a better time and place if they could just get back to it.
Hugh Howey
#84. When evil rules a time and place, certain good people are called upon to tell the truth to those who don't want to hear it.
Anne F. Rockwell
#85. Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place.
Stephanie Coontz
#86. When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
Rumi
#87. If you look at 1983, the film of the year was 'Terms of Endearment.' 'Scarface' was lumped in under the gratuitously violent banner. I mean, we knew it was violent, that it depicted a violent time and place. But it wasn't the end-all of the thing.
Steven Bauer
#88. Actions may be judged according to time and place, and their values may change; but style, language (apart from content) are crystallized at the moment.
Erika Mann
#89. The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are
there, my friend.
Rob Sheffield
#90. I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
Bob Latta
#91. It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.
Matthew Fontaine Maury
#92. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
Brian Eno
#93. In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.
Nicholas Sparks
#94. Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished His fleshly dimension with its limitations of time and place. He entered a higher realm of restoration and love by becoming an indwelling Spirit.
Earl Paulk
#95. The thing to remember is that there is nothing new about the society depicted in The Handmaid's Tale except the time and place. All of the things I have written about have been done before, more than once.
Margaret Atwood
#96. I had spent four years propped on the front porch of the fraternity house, bemused and dreaming, watching the sun shine through the spanish moss, lost in the mystery of finding myself alive at such a time and place.
Walker Percy
#97. It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.
Edmund Burke
#98. An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#99. Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.
Monica Johnson
#100. If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place.
Darrell Calkins
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