Quotes About Place

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave that place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things. from At the Abbey Theatre

We gather information by many means, but a single spy in the right place and at the right moment may change the course of history.

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O solitude! Where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

But it was the great temple of Sringeri that always received his most generous patronage, as a stash of correspondence discovered within the temple in the 1950s bears witness. Tipu put on record his horror at the damage done to the temple by a Maratha Pindari raiding party during a Maratha invasion of Mysore: 'People who have sinned against such a holy place are sure to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds,' wrote Tipu. 'Those

Calcutta,' wrote Clive a few years later, 'is one of the most wicked places in the Universe … Rapacious and Luxurious beyond conception.

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

Folks called this place haunted, felt the emanations of an unspeakable act moving outward like ripples on water.

Or at least rumours. Ragnar was starting to suspect that any place you put two soldiers together in a campaign, you would get three rumours.

Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.

Residents of New York City might be interested to know that Broadway was originally an Indian road, and that Astor Place, where it begins, was the shared lacrosse field for the three nations that occupied Manhattan.

E la cosa incredibile è che ho visto come fuggivi senza muoverti dal tuo posto, sfruttando quella momentanea distrazione per sparire.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

Marx's critique of free markets and free trade can shed as much devastating light on our own actually existing capitalism as it did for the capitalism of Marx's own time and place.

For the elite, living comfortably in their gilded ghettos, the world must indeed seem a better place.

The winds of earth are old and sane But tell me, tell me when you know — What happens to a hurricane That hasn't any place to go?

Darkness does something to a place, doesn't it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.

There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.

Christianity can endure, not by surrendering itself to the modern mind and modern culture, but rather by a break with it: the condition of a long future both for culture and the soul is the Christianity which antagonizes culture without denying its place."77

What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place.

If the strength of our feelings was in proportion to the events that provoke them, the world would not be the place it is

Anyone in search of chocolate eventually makes the pilgrimage to Ladurée, the world-famous tea salon just off the place de la Madeleine.

One of my favorite places to buy fish, called Pêche Paris, is at the marché d'Aligre.