One Place Quotes
347 One Place quotes by 305 unique authors
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The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place…
— Warren Ellis
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There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a…
— Charles Bukowski
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Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All…
— Caleb Carr
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There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use…
— Swami Satchidananda
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There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.
— Laura Lippman
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The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one…
— Haruki Murakami
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Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.
— Rick Riordan
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Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place,…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up…
— Walter Dean Myers
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Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and…
— Cynthia Lord
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People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to…
— Damon Galgut
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For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people…
— David Foster Wallace
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To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one…
— Aldo Leopold
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I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was…
— Charlaine Harris
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I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly…
— David Foster Wallace
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It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst…
— Laini Taylor
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally…
— C.S. Lewis
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Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and…
— Kristin Cashore
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So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no…
— Bill Bryson
Who Wrote These One Place Quotes
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