Place Quotes
16265 Place quotes by 8295 unique authors
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Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and…
— Theodore Dreiser
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them…
— Carl Sandburg
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can…
— Mortimer Adler
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While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have…
— Billy Graham
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In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so…
— Jonas Salk
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important…
— Robert D. Hales
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Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
— Paulo Coelho
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Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something…
— Stephen Levine
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Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of…
— Wayne Dyer
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According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness.…
— Deepak Chopra
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The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.
— Kobe Bryant
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I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back…
— Charles Barkley
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It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was…
— Scottie Pippen
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Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
— William Westmoreland
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I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.
— John Abizaid
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It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate…
— John Abizaid
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Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying…
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen…
— Alice Meynell
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Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
— Ben E. King
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