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Quotes About Place

Juggie Blue: We don't want to leave our homes We are poor, but even poor people can love their land. You do not need money to love your home.
~ Louise Erdrich
We don't want to leave our homes We are poor, but even poor people can love their land. You do not need money to love your home.
~ Louise Erdrich
I want to forget this year, but I'm also afraid I won't remember this year. I want this now to be the now where we save our place, your place, on earth.
~ Louise Erdrich
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writers must have a place where she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. Louise Erdrich
~ Louise Erdrich
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I was drawn to the contemplation of human injustice, I inclined myself to attenuate it, to explain it, to classify it in parts, to understand it, not according to a rigid pattern, but according to the time and place.
~ Machado de Assis
Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Tarihteki özel yerimizin bize sunduÄŸu özel f?rsatlardan kaynaklan?yor.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There is something about the idea of coupling—of the notion that a stranger's behavior is tightly connected to place and context—that eludes us (p. 311).
~ Malcolm Gladwell
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people.
~ Charles T. Munger
Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.
~ Debasish Mridha
Where else could you belong, except in the place you refused to leave.
~ Amitav Ghosh
There is an intimacy about the place that makes it unique among America's racetracks.
~ Andrew Beyer
East or West Home is best.
~ Andrew Carnegie
All that the Church and its members need for the manifestation of the mighty power of God in the world, is the return to our true place, the place that belongs to us, both in creation and redemption, the place of absolute and unceasing dependence upon God.
~ Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And
~ Andrew Murray
places. A man who seeks to pray earnestly in the church or in the closet, spends the greater part of the week or the day in a spirit entirely at variance with that in which he prayed. His worship was the work of a fixed place or hour, not of his whole
~ Andrew Murray
The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.
~ Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.
~ Andrew Murray
Arthur Less has been out of place many times in his life... He has done them all. So being in a place of utter misrule and chaos is no problem for him. In some way, that is the comfort zone of Arthur Less. He knows, in such places, where he stands.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)
~ Ani DiFranco
The promise of spiritual life - indeed, the very thing that makes it 'spiritual' in the sense I invoke throughout this book - is that there are truths about the mind that we are better off knowing. What we need to become happier and to make the world a better place is not more pious illusions but a clearer understanding of the way things are.
~ Sam Harris
So much are the modes of excellence settled by time and place, that men may be heard boasting in one street of that which they would anxiously conceal in another.
~ Samuel Johnson