Place Quotes
16265 Place quotes by 8295 unique authors
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To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
— George Santayana
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
— Samuel Johnson
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
— Eric Hoffer
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God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.
— Henrietta Mears
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
— Jonathan Swift
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
— Mark Twain
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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
— Anaxagoras
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The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer…
— Cesar Chavez
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Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.
— Mark Hoppus
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I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness…
— Alicia Silverstone
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There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
— Samuel Johnson
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We're not supposed to mention f***ing in mixed company, but that's exactly where it takes place.
— George Carlin
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
— Paul Theroux
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
— Mark Twain
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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action…
— Albert Einstein
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.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There…
— Albert Einstein
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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
— Mark Twain
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That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of…
— William Penn
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There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state, and at the same time, accomplish the social objective of having America become a…
— George W. Bush
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I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person…
— George W. Bush
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I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I…
— George W. Bush
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