Top 100 The Place Of Quotes
#1. The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Owen D. Young
#2. Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life ... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.
Charles Hummel
#3. Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.
Thornton Wilder
#4. The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#5. To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.
Marcel Proust
#6. there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart
Iris Murdoch
#7. *The Lonely*
Dancing slowly in an empty room.
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby;
Let you go and let the lonely in,
To take my heart again ...
Christina Perri
#8. Dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.
Maude Meagher
#9. Suffice it to say that the LOR has usurped the place of my own work, now adorned with cobwebs and dust in a remote corner of my office.
Julie Schumacher
#10. Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
Lilias Trotter
#11. Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
Sam Ewing
#12. Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
Madame De Stael
#13. It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.
Charles Busch
#14. Thus heaven's gift to us is this:
That habit takes the place of bliss.
Alexander Pushkin
#15. Science" in many minds is genuinely taking the place of a religion. Where this is so, the scientist treats the "Laws of Nature" as objective facts to be revered.
William James
#16. Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.
Ira Levin
#17. A man's success is hidden in the place of his labor.
Sunday Adelaja
#18. A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Gaspard Mermillod
#19. A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
Eliphas Levi
#20. There is funny ha-ha, and there is funny peculiar, and beneath a trapdoor in Kevin's mind is a place where the two blur together, the place of jokes, churning so furiously frequently, when it kicks up a line, he has no idea what it will turn out to be.
Kevin Brockmeier
#21. Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God
Elyse Fitzpatrick
#22. I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of the Father? 9
J.P. Moreland
#23. The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
Ivan Illich
#24. Addressing the economic plight of women may ultimately be the feminist platform that draws a collective response. It may well become the place of collective organizing, the common ground, the issue that unites all women.
Bell Hooks
#26. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
C.S. Lewis
#27. The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.
Yiannis Stournaras
#28. When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating.
Paul Bettany
#29. One mistake is enough for all your life. So, where is the place of a mischief-maker?
Behnam Rajabpoor
#30. I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#31. No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.
Billy Graham
#32. Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.
Arnold Lobel
#33. A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
George Bernard Shaw
#34. Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it
Thurston Moore
#35. Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.
William Barclay
#36. The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
Luciano Pavarotti
#37. She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous visions against the harsh light of consciousness.
Isabel Allende
#38. Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
Joseph Conrad
#39. Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.
W. C. Brownell
#40. The weapons of our warfare can only be exercised in the place of prayer.
Pedro Okoro
#41. Fights and quarrels don't come from lack of skill in conflict resolution. They don't come from people who are irritating. They come from desires that battle within. My desires are occupying the place of command and control inside my heart. Behavior Begins with the Heart
Tedd Tripp
#42. The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
Euripides
#44. Ibn Bassani, a Sufi mystic, all his life prayed, asking God to make his body the size of hell and send him there in the place of the world. I see my Lord Christ having done that for humanity.
Paul-Gordon Chandler
#45. For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.
Sue Monk Kidd
#46. Spirit of excellence can take you to the place of favor.
Euginia Herlihy
#47. For the entire earth is but a point, and the place of your own habitation but a minute corner in it. ( ... ) Remember then to withdraw into the little field of self. Above all, never struggle or strain; but be master of yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
#48. There's no part of the ceremony where the priest, acting in the place of God, warns the guests not to murder the bridegroom because it might jeopardize the succession.
Orson Scott Card
#49. Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.
Christina Baker Kline
#50. All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
Gautama Buddha
#51. Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement.
Mary Jane Walker
#52. Restrictionistic ideas have never met with any measure of popular sympathy except after a time of monetary depreciation when it has been necessary to decide what should take the place of the abandoned inflationary policy.
Ludwig Von Mises
#53. The Miata is taking the place of the 240Z . The fun of driving cars is the same as riding a horse. We need a car that is like riding on horseback. We are making robots. Robots don't like human control.
Yutaka Katayama
#54. Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.
Alistair Begg
#55. Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall
Drake
#56. The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
Kit Williams
#57. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Calvin Coolidge
#58. Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear-until we recognize the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#59. God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
John Locke
#60. Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
Peter Drucker
#61. Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.
Nancy Hale
#62. Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
Rebecca Goldstein
#63. Keep back no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know, and testify what you have seen. Let not the toil or darkness, or possible unbelief of your friends, weigh one moment in the scale. Up, and be marching to the place of duty, and there tell what great things God has shown to your soul.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. It's good to plan, but don't let the planning take the place of doing.
Karen McQuestion
#65. If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#66. Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#67. I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.
Wilhelm II
#68. Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.
Dale Carnegie
#70. And so I just grieve, groaning,
'Let me not go
To the Place of the Shorn:
My heart is now precious ...
For I, I am a poet
And my flower is golden.
David Bowles
#71. When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.
Jack Kornfield
#72. There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford
#73. Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
Sinclair Lewis
#74. No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.
John Cowper Powys
#75. So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
Calvin Johnson
#77. The loves prove that they are unworthy to take the place of God by the fact that they cannot even remain themselves and do what they promise to do without God's help.
C.S. Lewis
#78. Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?
Pope Francis
#79. Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.
William Allen White
#80. Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.
Heloise
#81. It may occasion surprise that the decree of a temporal power sufficed to give the classics a position that can be compared in other cultures to the place of sacred scriptures inspired by divine revelation.
Hellmut Wilhelm
#82. In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Alexandre Dumas
#84. The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
Gordon Brown
#85. Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Frances Wright
#86. He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains.
Agatha Christie
#87. David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.
Nicole Krauss
#88. The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, ... is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.
Andrew Dickson White
#89. It's the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
Gregory Maguire
#90. Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.
Matthew Henry
#91. I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.
Rachael Harris
#92. It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.
Henry David Thoreau
#93. Insomnia is an increasing problem. I've become swayed that sleep disorders are conceivably the most unnoticed, ignored, underrated reason of health as well as performance problems in the place of work.
Sean Sullivan
#94. Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.
Samael Aun Weor
#95. The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.
Raymond Geuss
#96. Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.
Sun Myung Moon
#97. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present.
Thomas S. Monson
#98. Hope gives us the ability to open our eyes and think, belief takes us through the valleys and faith directs us straight to the place of seeing the unseen.
Euginia Herlihy
#99. I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.
Tina Fey
#100. I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!
Auguste Laurent
