Placed Quotes
913 quotes by 776 authors
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‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human…
— Kevin Kelly
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Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. "It's cute," I whispered…
— Jim Butcher
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She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his…
— Michael Grant
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All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with…
— E. O. Wilson
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Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well,…
— Karen Kingsbury
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In answer, she took his hand and placed it on her chest. Right over her heart. 'You're in, Cade Morgan. Only you.
— Julie James
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Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end…
— Bruce Lee
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If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Barabas placed a stack on the table and held the chair out for me. “For you.†“I’m hungry and I don’t have time for this. 
— Ilona Andrews
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The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where…
— Ram Dass
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Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
— Andrea Gibson
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I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they…
— Abbi Glines
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles…
— Ramakrishna
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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls…
— George Lucas
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a…
— Marie Curie
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and…
— Marcel Proust
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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
— Helen Keller
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Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
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The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of…
— Edward Jenner
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
— Alexander Pope
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