Quotes About Place

In another city. In another place. Luk would have had to submit his plans for approval. Months would have been lost. Waiting. The Ministry in Charge. Public safety and all that. But the law is for people who don't know each other. We're all family here.

I concluded that no place in the world was entirely safe for an African, and that for many of us, survival depended on perpetual migration.

He'd never been the type of awaken easily, always struggling to cross that daily border between slumber and the responsibilities of the wide awake world. But that day he had opened his eyes and known. Death had announced itself, named a time and place, and left him instantly alert.

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

I hope our eyes gleam once all our crap clicks into place.

Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.

because morning gives a dimension of magic to any place it was soft and sharp at the same time.

For that matter an individual with the money (between $500 and $2,000) and a place to put it can erect a historical marker.

I so ill deserve the place his arms make for me.

We must get home! How could we stray like this? So far from home, we know not where it is, Only in some fair, apple-blossomy place Of children's faces--and the mother's face We dimly dream it, till the vision clears

When you're here, in a place like Bamiyan, with such a giant blue sky draped above you, other places seem so tiny.

Well, said Anne, 'I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.

but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering—which was by no means the case

For six weeks, I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that, it is the most tiresome place in the world.

Uno no ama menos un lugar por haber sufrido en él, a menos que todo allí no fuera más que sufrimiento, puro sufrimiento.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.

In city downtowns, public policy cannot inject directly the entirely private enterprises that serve people after work and enliven and help invigorate the place. Nor can public policy, by any sort of fiat, hold these uses in a downtown. But indirectly, public policy can encourage their growth by using its own chessmen, and those susceptible to public pressure, in the right places as primers.

Two, she thought, was the most ephemeral age, the age of incipient consciousness, when personality was first chinking into place. Felicity was her last chance to enjoy this, and so she did, day after day

Didn't want to look out of place." I didn't want to burst his fantasy bubble, but the only time Ranger wouldn't look out of place would be standing in a lineup between Rambo and Batman.

One thing that's nice about writing a book about food is - unless it's from a specific place - you can revisit things easily by preparing the dish. The sensory detail that comes from interacting with that is something that can be recreated pretty easily.

I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.

Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.

Yeah, Peckham's a mad place. Unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen throughout the day or the night. Today in the morning everything's cool. In the afternoon you're in mad beef. It's just normal isn't it? It's cool for us.