Quotes About Place

There is something that can only be found in one place. It is a great treasure, which may be called the fulfilment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place on which one stands.

he says "firm place" because spiritual goods do not persist in themselves but in God, from whom they gush forth without ceasing.

and preserve Your doctrine true at this place, that our children after us may be still praising You. Amen.

Well, I offer a retuning of intention, a slightly more sober directive—to be of a place, to labour under a related indebtedness to a stretch of earth that you have not claimed but which has claimed you.

If the word comes from the father's body, among people, and they do not receive it, it will return back to its place.

He answered them, "You are from fullness and you are in a place of deficiency. And look, his light has poured down on me.

Rome was the only place in the ancient Mediterranean where the state took responsibility for the regular basic food supplies of its citizens.

I'll take a breath, take you by my side Under the sunlight, Welcome to this place I'll show you love; I'll show you everything With arms wide open.

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The isolation of this place tightened like a vise around her throat.

Somewhere beyond all that, on an unseeable horizon, was Morrighan and all the people who lived there, going about their lives, unaware. My brothers. Pauline. Berdi. Gwyneth. And more patrols like Walther's who would meet their deaths, as unaware as I had once been. I want to go with you. Where I was going was no place for Natiya. It was hardly a place for me.

the nature of the world (and by extension, one's place in it) and the nature of human reasoning (including when it fails, as it so often does).

In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective. And the most peculiar discovery Nora made was that, of all the extremely divergent variations of herself she had experienced, the most radical sense of change happened within the exact same life.

But I guess I'm already there I come home—she lifted up her wings Guess that this must be the place. —TALKING HEADS, "THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from.

But the point is: history is everywhere. It's about making people realise that. It makes you understand a place.

The Earth´s sun can look very much alone, yet it has relatives all across this galaxy, stars that were born in the exact same place, but which were now very far away from each other, lighting very different worlds. I was like a sun.

madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.

O que constitui um enigma é a sua ligação, é o que está entre elas – é o facto de eu ver as coisas no seu devido lugar, precisamente porque elas se eclipsam umas às outras –, é o serem rivais perante o meu olhar, precisamente porque cada uma está no seu lugar.

There is a knowledge of place which is reducible to a sort of co-existence with that place, and which is not simply nothing, even though it cannot be conveyed by a description.