Best Our Place Quotations
126 Our Place quotes by 110 unique authors
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The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as…
— Carl Sagan
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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the…
— Oscar Wilde
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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
— Oscar Wilde
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Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it…
— Robert Hass
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All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but…
— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.…
— Anne Lamott
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There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we…
— Walt Disney
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The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you…
— Deb Caletti
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We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well,…
— Gore Vidal
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We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He…
— Christopher Hitchens
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He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?" Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's…
— Mercedes Lackey
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It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes…
— Megan Hart
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There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to…
— Karen Marie Moning
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.
— Paul Simon
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We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature…
— Stephen Hawking
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My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity…
— Mark Doty
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I think we should all earn our place in the world. [...] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything.
— Rachel Vincent
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Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions…
— Bruce Feiler
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I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.
— Brian Schmidt
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My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of…
— Kevin Plank
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