Quotes about place
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“Looking back, it's like, wow, those few minutes just made such an impact. We have that much time to kind of prove yourself. I think that's one thing that makes skating so exciting, because it's just intense, and it's quick, and one little slip can mean the difference between placing or not placing.”

Kristi Yamaguchi (1971) American figure skater

"Kristi Yamaguchi looks back on 1992 Olympic gold, talks Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan" in TODAY https://www.today.com/news/kristi-yamaguchi-looks-back-1992-olympic-gold-talks-tonya-harding-t122373 (6 February 2018)

Thinking, Time

“Most of the people are placing too much emphasis of their happiness on price, rather than on value.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Happiness, People

“The fallen angels took full responsibility. I don't think anyone tempted the devil to rebel in the first place. He just made up his own mind.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Angels, Thinking

“The world will be such a lonely place whenever I decide to leave it.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World

“Your past, present and future sins will be placed upon your shoulders and not on the shoulders of the man who left us long ago.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Past, Future

“Be at peace; place everything on my shoulders. I will take care of it. I give my penitents only small penances because I do the rest myself.”

Leopold Mandić (1866–1942) Catholic priest; saint

To his penitents. Quoted in "An important anniversary to celebrate", The Malta Independent (20 August 2017) http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2017-08-20/newspaper-letters/An-important-anniversary-to-celebrate-6736177986.

Peace

“It's all nonsense. I do not claim to be prime minister. Why do they raise such issues ?! We are all ministers in our own place. But at this age, I'm not fighting for a position.”

Ayaz Mutallibov (1938–2022) Soviet politician, then president of Azerbaijan

Source: "“Bu yaşımda durub vəzifə davası edəcəm?!” - Ayaz Mütəllibov “Rusiyanın adamıdır” iddiasına cavab verdi" https://modern.az/az/news/142660 (7 September 2017)

Age, Fight

“The multi-dimensional aspects of water are amazing. Water contains within itself the knowing or the memory of anything it comes into contact with. This means it carries the knowing and the memory of a place and the happenings there, going back sometimes thousands of years. It is full of information… Sort of like a mirror that keeps the reflection of anything it has ever encountered.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Water, Memory

“All people and all organisations must collectively endeavour to uphold Human Values, and strive to make the world in which we live a better and far more harmonious place.”

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Others

People, World

“How often each day, if you were to verbalize your inner reality at that moment, would you have to say, “I don't want to be where I am?” What does it feel like when you don't want to be where you are–the traffic jam, your place of work, the airport lounge, the people you are with?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 6

People, Feeling, Reality

“He that knows anything, knows this, in the first place, that he need not seek long for instances of his ignorance."”

John Locke book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 3, sec. 22

“We women have presented larger petitions in support of our enfranchisement than were ever presented for any other reform; we have succeeded in holding greater public meetings than men have ever held for any reform, in spite of the difficulty which women have in throwing off their natural diffidence, that desire to escape publicity which we have inherited from generations of our foremothers. We have broken through that. We have faced hostile mobs at street corners, because we were told that we could not have that representation for our taxes that men have won unless we converted the whole of the country to our side. Because we have done this, we have been misrepresented, we have been ridiculed, we have had contempt poured upon us, and the ignorant mob have been incited to offer us violence, which we have faced unarmed and unprotected by the safeguards which Cabinet Ministers enjoy. We have been driven to do this; we are determined to go on with this agitation because we feel in honour bound. Just as it was the duty of your forefathers, it is our duty to make the world a better place for women than it is to-day.”

Emmeline Pankhurst book My Own Story

My Own Story (1914), Book II, Ch. 3

Women, Men, Hostility, World

“Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 14

School

“Something of its essence then transmits itself to you. You can sense how still it is, and in doing so the same stillness arises within you. You sense how deeply it rests in Being–completely at one with what it is and where it is. In realizing this, you too come to a place of rest deep within yourself.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 7

Sense

“It is true, of course, that some places are good places to walk out of–and sometimes that may well be the most appropriate thing for you to do. In many cases, however, walking out is not an option. In all those cases, the “I don't want to be here” is not only useless but also dysfunctional. It makes you and others unhappy.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 6

““Mental illness is often used as a rationale or label placed on hate crimes. In fact, it rarely is connected to one’s mental state, but instead, through hatred and other prejudicial mores established in early childhood.””

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

2013

Hate, Childhood

“One, who vacillates between you and another person, cannot make a decision; therefore, this places the decision-making process in your hands. Never linger in the forbidden place of torment and sorrow. Someone, you do not know and have never seen is waiting for you.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1980

Decision, Waiting, Personality

“(NEVER GIVE UP) " Been born on the wrong side of the track does not mean your birth place will be a permanent address. " -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

Birth

“To find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality. Make it your life's mission today to bring to the attention of another just how extraordinary they are. Say it. Say it. SAY it. Their heart is waiting to know that their own best thought about themselves can be believed.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Life, Beauty, Reality, Waiting

“It's fascinating the intellect of a person who always has a resource, who instead of getting down about a problem look for a solution. The mind remains the most interesting and engaging place of a human being.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È affascinante l'intelletto di una persona che ha sempre una risorsa, che invece di abbattersi per un problema cerca una soluzione. La mente rimane il posto più interessante e coinvolgente di un essere umano.
Source: prevale.net

Problem, Personality

“Nature is the greatest healer, by reconnecting back to nature, we begin changing the world all around us. We begin living from the inside out, breathing in the beautiful 'Chi,' becoming peaceful, developing serenity within ourselves, and that will make this planet a much more harmonious place to live in.”

Ralph Smart

World, Peace, Beauty, Nature

“He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving -- that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Pain, Sadness, Way, Memory

“What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps." --Anita Blake”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Thinking

“I don't know if you heard, but I kind of run this place.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Understanding

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion

Love, Suffering

“A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it… You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Forgiveness, Learning

“The point is, Sin is now going to try to overthrow me again and take my place. Do you know what that means? (Artemis)
There will be much rejoicing? (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Country

“Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

Life, Happiness

“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

“I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

Secret, Dreams, Soul, Imagination

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

Imagination, Idea, Fashion

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“I think war is a dangerous place.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

War, Thinking

“We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Source: Intrigues

World, Time

“Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

Fear

“I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile. Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere.
I mean… you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Smile, Heart

“You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Children

“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Tell-All

Source: Tell-All

World

“It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Variant: It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 8, “Thieves, Heretics, and Whores” (p. 63)

People, Books, Travel, Reading

“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

People

“In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

World, Future

“Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Variant: Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.
Source: The Lost Hero

Sadness, Way

“This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Nature

“It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.”

Hugh Laurie book The Gun Seller

Source: The Gun Seller

Pain, Cry

“.. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

Hurt, Loneliness, Anger

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Life, Memory

“You who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Jo, Chapter 7, p. 66-67
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)

Courage

“We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place…”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Idea, Heart

“For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

People, World

“Sleep has no place it can call its own.”

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula

Sleep

“You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Way, Feeling

“ah, the outdoors," Shallan said. "I visited that mythical place once. It was so very long ago, I've nearly forgotten it. Tell me, does the sun still shine, or is that just my dreamy recollection'

'Surely your studies aren't that bad.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Study, Sun

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Source: The Sign of Four

Love

“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

As quoted in The Guardian (1995), and in "Biting back at Microsoft" (5 June 2001) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jun/05/guardianletters3

Idea, Appearance

“When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

“They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Love, Dreams

“The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Variant: The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

World, Fight, Beauty

“Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

Home

“I am the place in which something has occurred.”

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist

“You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

Time

“They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Understanding

“Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl, Understanding

“A piece of heaven?" I managed to ask.
He slowly shook his head. "No. The other place. The one I'm going to burn in for thinking what I'm thinking.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking

“In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Life, Feeling, Tree, Winter

“It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start”

Ron Rash book Serena

Source: Serena

World, Tear, Baby

“even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Insatiable

Stupidity, School

“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Sadness, Travel

“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Personality

“The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me…”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Peace, Imagination, Game

“Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno."
"Why Fresno?"
"Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

People, Drink

“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

War, People, History

“Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.”

Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“You might not believe it… but you make the world a better place when you smile.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Variant: The world is a better place when you smile
Source: The Guardian

World, Smile

“Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Beyond the Highland Mist

“Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your
head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and
purrs.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Life, Feeling, Lying

“You can run but you can't hide… but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

Pain, Feeling

“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Reading

“Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Problem, Sport, Winter

“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Beauty, Mathematics

“Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Love, Soul

“Look. In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he's always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there."
"Where's that?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

"Wherever you were."
Luke and Clary, pg. 210-211
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Hell

“The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it's their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Children, Personality, Country

“Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.”

Christopher Moore book Coyote Blue

Source: Coyote Blue

Love

“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Men

“She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, Girl

“His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”

Ray Bradbury Farewell Summer

Source: Farewell Summer

Books

“I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

People, World, Peace, Time

“I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place.”

Howard Gardner (1943) American developmental psychologist

Howard Gardner (1983), "Multiple approaches to understanding," in: Charles M. Reigeluth (ed.) Instructional-design Theories and Models: A new paradigm of ..., Volume 2. p. 69-90

Children, World, Understanding

“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Old Town Folks

Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 39 (p. 507) Sometimes paraphrased: "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." and "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn".
Context: When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, — and so, boys, go, and God bless you!

Time