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Place Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to…
- The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
- …Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the…
- I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if…
- The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given…
- Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.
- I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too…
More Place Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden