Place Quotes

16265 Place quotes by 8295 unique authors

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face. — William Wordsworth
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place,… — Peggy Noonan
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics. — Oscar Wilde
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point. — George Will
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of… — Adrienne Rich
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals. — Albert Einstein
Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties. — Albert Einstein
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral… — Albert Einstein
When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked. — Jim Denevan
Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects… — Andrzej Stasiuk
It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins… — Charles Eisenstein
Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated… — Marjorie Garber
Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places. — Richard Mabey
The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time,… — Rolf Potts
Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are… — Rolf Potts
Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong. — Yiyun Li
One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a… — Chris Hondros
I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which… — Boris Gelfand
I know my little 'dirty drawings' are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be nice if -… — Tom of Finland
Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination… — Bruce C. Hafen
The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. — Alice McDermott
Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the… — Sarah Beeny
This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea exploration,… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow… — William E. Rees

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