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Quotes About Place

Jackson: This is a debrief, Life. Your feelings aren't relevant except insofar as they imply personal weakness. There's a time and place to discuss such things, and it's when we get back home, with someone else.
~ Max Barry
The reading-room? "Of the British Museum. I go there every day." "You do? I've only been there once. I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place. It—it seemed to sap one's vitality. It doe. That's why I go there. The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
~ Max Beerbohm
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
~ Maya Angelou
I need your dominance, your strength. Your control. I need that structure. It centers me. It reminds me that I have a place in this world. With you.
~ Maya Banks
It was also, however, a favorite place for novices to stand and wait for innocent students to slip up by talking too loudly between classes. No novice has ever been created that could keep Gina quiet, however.
~ Meg Cabot
I could bring you up on charges for that. What? Work harassment in the sexual place.
~ Melissa Bank
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~ Beatrix Potter
Clothes do not interest her. They hang on her body as if they are there only because there is no place else for them to go, like men on street corners, like children on the school playground on weekends.
~ bell hooks
Ethics and aesthetics are deeply intertwined. Art, beauty, and craft have always drawn on the self-organizing 'wild' side of language and mind. Human ideas of place and space, our contemporary focus on watersheds, become both models and metaphors. Our hope would be to see the interacting realms, learn where we are, and thereby move towards a style of planetary and ecological cosmopolitanism.
~ bell hooks
Infernal world! And thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor-one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
~ Ben Bova
In this province Sandoval laid the foundation of a town, which, by the desire of Cortes, he named Medellin, after the latter's native place, in Estremadura.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Sigtryggr had been given an honorable place at the table, as had my daughter. "It was her fault," Sigtryggr said, nodding toward Stiorra. I translated for Æthelflaed. "Why her fault?" she asked. "He saw her and was distracted," I explained.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.
~ Bertrand Russell
London is a weary place, where it is quite impossible to think or feel anything worthy of a human being - I feel horribly lost here. Only the river and the gulls are my friends; they are not making money or acquiring power.
~ Bertrand Russell
This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.
~ Beryl Markham
Nothing haunts us more than our search for, finally, a sense of place. As it turns out, true belonging is found only in the sovereign palm of God. There alone we find our place, even amid the seasons of moving, planting, uprooting, and replanting. It's only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB
~ Beth Moore
God commands us to make Him our absolute priority. Even attempting to place Him beside those other things we reverence most means dishonoring Him.
~ Beth Moore
Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.
~ Peter Zumthor
There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.
~ Kenneth Chenault
Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.
~ Rachel Kushner
The Senate has a reputation as quite a collegial place, and I have found that to be true, especially with the women.
~ Tina Smith
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
~ Keith Ellison
Google will continue to be the place of choice, and we wanted to signal that very clearly to our employees.
~ Patrick Pichette