Quotes About Place

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

No le conozco a usted. Nadie puede conocerle, ponerse en su lugar, usted no tiene lugar, no sabe dónde encontrar un lugar. Por ello le quiero y usted está perdido.

It is said that in that distant place, almost at the end of the Ganges, where she sleeps in a darkened room with her lover, she is subject to moods of profound melancholy.

Quelques mois plus tard, je donnai à un des quartiers d'Antinoé, le nom de ma soeur Pauline. [...] Pauline morte retrouvait dans cette ville de la mémoire sa place unique de soeur. Ce lieu triste devenait le site idéal des réunions et des souvenirs, les Champs Élysées d'une vie, l'endroit où les contradictions se résolvent, où tout, à son rang, est également sacré.

He] was very ill-used by the Government about a place that was promised him and never given, after his supporting them against his conscience very honourably, and being greatly abused for it, which hurt him greatly, he having the name of a great patriot in the country before.

Ireland?" "Small wet place across the Irish Sea," Barry offered kindly. "Where they drink a lot?" Lisa said faintly. "And they never stop talking. That's the place.

Place is not the background of archaeology—it's the point. As any archaeologist will tell you, context is everything.

If you want to inform yourselves as to the nature of hell, don't hold your hand in a candle flame, just ponder the meanest, most desolate place in your soul.

He heard the Baymen tell of war, but they never said it could be harnessed, its head held down, and made to run in place.

What a place to put a city, right on the front line of absolute zero. No wonder a cow burned it down.

What I did with his automobile was fairly dramatic and somewhat risky, but still a lot easier than finding a parking place on the Upper East Side.

I was holding my breath. Is this where we live, I thought, in this place at this moment, with the air so light and wild?

There was real beauty to the old idea of living and dying where you were born.

Jesús, según Lucas, transmite sus más importantes mensajes en conversaciones; sobre todo, en conversaciones que tienen lugar con ocasión de un convite.

The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.

Of this crisis in my life, I remember chiefly a sense of tremendous inevitability, a feeling that fate was settling its own problems, and too much reflection would be out of place.

The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the ivy-coloured church tower was complete. But all the outlines of the place were so well known to him that he could trace them all in the dim light.

There was very little in the dispute which seemed to be worthy of the place in which it occurred, or of the vigour with which it was conducted; but it served to show the temper of the parties, and to express the bitterness of the political feelings of the day. It was said at the time, that never within the memory of living politicians had so violent an animosity displayed itself in the House as had been witnessed on this night

Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it.

The young man's ideas about politics were boyish, but they were the ideas of a clear-headed boy. Silverbridge had picked up some of the ways of the place, though he had not yet formed any sound political opinions

There were no doubt gentlemen of different degrees, but the English gentleman of gentlemen was he who had land, and family title-deeds, and an old family place, and family portraits, and family embarrassments, and a family absence of any useful employment.

It's just a place, not another state of being.

The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.

You know what I love about this place? (Joe) I hope it's not the décor. (Steele)