Quotes with places

  • They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
  • A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
  • Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
  • The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
  • Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
  • To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
  • That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
  • The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
  • Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
  • One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
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  • Cyril Connolly Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • John Dewey Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Lord Greville A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
    Lord Greville
     
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
    We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Christopher Marlowe All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Robert Burton All places are distant from heaven alike.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy Part II, sect. 2, 4
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Joseph Addison Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Brantley Gilbert Being on stage and on a motorcycle are two of the only places I feel comfortable and free. Those are my happy places.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Camille Pissarro Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Busta Rhymes Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 172
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Antoni Gaudi Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
    Antoni Gaudi
    Catalan architect
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  • John Wesley Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • B. J. Daniels During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
    B. J. Daniels
     
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  • Bai Ling English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Brad Wenstrup Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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