Place Quotes
16265 Place quotes by 8295 unique authors
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No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the... where's he gone again?
— Unknown Author
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than…
— Galileo Galilei
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there.…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that…
— Peter Singer
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Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place.…
— E. O. Wilson
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,…
— Wendell Berry
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The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round…
— David Douglass
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For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths…
— Alexander Alekhine
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I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of…
— Unknown Author
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Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for…
— Frances E. Willard
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first…
— James Boswell
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For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily…
— Billy Graham
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To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan. However, it is…
— Bill O'Reilly
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I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it…
— Jay Sekulow
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With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how…
— Richard M. Weiner
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Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a…
— Barack Obama
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
— Oscar Wilde
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The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who…
— Bob Dole
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We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
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There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place)…
— Roland Barthes
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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's…
— Lance Armstrong
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