Quotes with sticking-place

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  • John Galsworthy Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Bell Hooks Secrets find a way out in sleep... It is the place where there is no pretense.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Harry Browne Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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  • Richard Dawkins Segregation has no place in the education system.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Camille Paglia Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • A. A. Milne So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
    Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Virginia Woolf Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ada Leverson Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
    Source: Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Beau Bridges Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
    Source: Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Robert Alan Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good. You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Lewis Thomas Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Bruno Dumont Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Alice Meynell Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Alex Noble Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
    Alex Noble
    Australian athlete and motivational speaker
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  • Carl D. Anderson Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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