Quotes with place

Quotes 721 till 738 of 738.

  • Sir Richard Steele Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Carl Andre A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • William Allen White Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • John F. Kennedy I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Andre Breton If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • B. W. Powe If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
    Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 161
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but the smell makes the garden a place of joy.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Pablo Picasso The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Pablo Picasso The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Denis Diderot The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Denis Diderot The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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