Placed Quotes
913 quotes by 776 authors
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in…
— Margaret Atwood
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of…
— John James Audubon
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our…
— Edward Bach
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
— Francis Bacon
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Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
— John Berger
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It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden…
— James Bovard
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Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.
— Christina Aguilera
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with…
— David Brainerd
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People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know…
— Sandra Bullock
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the…
— Albert Camus
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair,…
— Anton Chekhov
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm…
— Benjamin Boukpeti
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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