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Quotes About Place

Grave doubts as to whether I was in my place in the church, would keep rising and floating about, like rain-clouds within me.
~ George MacDonald
Cada um tem seu lugar. Fico feliz que o trabalho não seja reservado para escravos. Se fosse esse o caso, eu seria privado de meu maior prazer. Muitas coisas eu gosto, mas nada substitui o trabalho.
~ George S. Clason
Christianity dates from the individual birth of a redeeming god; Islam, from the birth of a community, of a new kind of state, which did not have its basis in either blood or place. Islam differs from Christianity and Buddhism in that it became, after the Hegira, something different from a teaching propagated in the framework of a society already formed (a local or blood community). It was the establishment of a society based on the new teaching.
~ Georges Bataille
In this gathering place, where violence is ripe, at the boundary of that which escapes cohesion, he who reflects within cohesion realizes that there is no longer any room for him.
~ Georges Bataille
In this gathering place, where violence is rife, at the boundary of that which escapes cohesion, he who reflects within cohesion realizes that there is no longer any room for him.
~ Georges Bataille
Poetic delirium has its place in nature. It justifies nature, consents to embellish it. The refusal belongs to clear consciousness, evaluating whatever occurs to it.
~ Georges Bataille
Wonderful! said the Duke. We progress! We...? Progress? You said we? Progress? It seems I erred, Avon sighed. We remain at the same place.
~ Georgette Heyer
Cecy, help me to collect the ducklings, and put them back into the box! If we were to place your muff on top of them they will very likely believe it to be their mother, and settle down!
~ Georgette Heyer
She said impatiently. 'It is of no use for us to argue on that head. Where is Bertram?' 'Don't think you'd know the place, ma'am. It's – it's near Westminster!
~ Georgette Heyer
This is the place of places and and it is here.
~ Gertrude Stein
If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out.
~ Gertrude Stein
Delhi was not completely a new place for me, but as a political worker, it was a new place.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.
~ Nina Bawden
American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.
~ Josh Hawley
I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.
~ Orlando Bloom
I am no longer a scientist as I stopped in 2000. Science was quite a testing place to be as a working-class woman.
~ Gail Bradbrook
Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.
~ Neneh Cherry
Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
~ Israel Horovitz
My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.
~ Tom Brady
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
~ Andrew Pyper
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
~ Christiane Amanpour
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
~ G. H. Hardy
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
~ Maurice Greene
When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.
~ Kevin Morby