Best Took Place Quotations
130 Took Place quotes by 121 unique authors
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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country.…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout…
— Shimon Peres
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I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone.…
— Ernie Pyle
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I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to…
— Ryan Reynolds
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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
— Al Sharpton
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Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
— William Shatner
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The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the…
— Shelby Foote
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Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place…
— Anais Nin
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Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
— Toni Morrison
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In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though…
— James Lee Burke
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Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has…
— Libba Bray
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Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.
— Lisa Kleypas
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The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games,…
— Suzanne Collins
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Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your…
— Suzanne Collins
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The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall,…
— Richard Brautigan
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If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about…
— Louis L'Amour
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Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.
— Eiichiro Oda
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We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took…
— Dorothy Day
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If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have…
— Georges Cuvier
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Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be…
— David Attenborough
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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
— Paul de Man
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Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates…
— Antonio Damasio
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The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits…
— Alan Bennett
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I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.
— James Langevin
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