Quotes About Place

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it's shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I've never seen it since, but that doesn't matter. My soul is in the likeness of a jagged peak with a rock like a man standing on its summit, and snags of rock shaped like trolls along its spine. Screes defend it, although it's not quite inaccessible if you know the way up.

Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire.

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

Some kind of philosophical mission, something that would push back, if only for a moment, against the inescapable nihilism of this place.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

Place is security, space is freedom.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

The strength you get when you get the right support, from the right person, at the right time, and the right place is called a genuine relationship!

I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we have tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying, 'Well, you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths are going to make the world a better place,' and it's up to us to make sure that it does.

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

A coin in the fountain The Trevi Fountain in Rome is a popular gathering place for tourists. There is a legend that if you toss a coin into the water, you will be certain to return to Rome.

The place stank like someone had butchered a rotting cow in a Porta Potti. The

Hay menos tiempo que lugar, no obstante, hay lugares que duran un minuto y para cierto tiempo no ha lugar.

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

if you stay in it for any length of time, like anyplace else, a cafe becomes a world.

GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads; they need a safe place to put their glasses while they sleep.