Quotes About Place

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

Are you always so suspicious?" "What can I say? The world is an ugly place. We must live in it.

Are you always so suspicious?' 'What can I say?' He held out his palms. 'The world is an ugly place. We must live in it.

The thing is, the world is an amazing place, really. We are the ones who have trivialized everything, we are the ones who have stripped the magic from the world and left it a terribly mundane sort of place.

I have been trying to place myself in a land of great sunshine, and abandon my will therewith.

She is hollowed out, her edges blurred and insubstantial. She might disintegrate, break apart, like a raindrop hitting a leaf. She cannot leave this place, she cannot pass through this gate. She can not leave him here.

Boredom is humiliating, like desire erupting out of place.

He was safe here; this was the place he loved - sanctuary, the paradise of his despair.

It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

the path that he followed being fixed for ever in his memory by the general excitement due to being in a strange place, to doing unusual things,

But she was wrong; it was what gave her away; she had not taken into account that this fragmentary detail of the truth had sharp edges which could not be made to fit in, except to those contiguous fragments of the truth from which she had arbitrarily detached it, edges which, whatever the fictitious details in which she might embed it, would continue to shew, by their overlapping angles and by the gaps which she had forgotten to fill, that its proper place was elsewhere.

but then the memory—not yet of the place in which I was, but of various other places where I had lived and might now very possibly be—would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being, from which I could never have escaped by myself:

Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.