Place Quotes
16265 Place quotes by 8295 unique authors
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My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.
— Sandra Bullock
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the…
— Philip Sidney
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All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's…
— William S. Burroughs
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high.…
— Maya Angelou
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
— Calvin Coolidge
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
— Amy Lowell
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The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind,…
— Peter McWilliams
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If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business…
— Mary Kay Ash
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When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own…
— Wayne Dyer
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Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of…
— Henry Fielding
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I know you want me back. It's time to face the facts. That I'm the one that's got away. Lord knows that it would take…
— Beyonce Knowles
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I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is…
— Dave Reichert
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Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have…
— A. Whitney Brown
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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
— Vera Nazarian
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place…
— Julie Andrews
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Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come…
— Barack Obama
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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we…
— Francis Crick
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You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll…
— James M. Barrie
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'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree,…
— Shel Silverstein
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry…
— Swami Vivekananda
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New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction…
— H. L. Mencken
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Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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