Quotes about place (8705 quotes, page 87)

“The true potential of an augmented life is revealed when it provides us with the information we need, at exactly the right time and place.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Time , Life

“And now, gentlemen, what is the condition of the great body of the people? In the first place, gentlemen, they have for centuries been in the full enjoyment of that which no other country in Europe has ever completely attained—complete rights of personal freedom.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Source: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), p. 507

Freedom , Personality , People , Country

“I ran twice and we won twice.This crowd is a massive symbol of what took place, because people are hungry for the truth. They want their country back.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/trump-arizona-rally-2024-election/621244/ theatlantic
2022, January 2022

Country , People , Truth

“Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law,
Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: Savonarola (1881), Lorenzo de' Medici in Act I, sc. i; p. 14.

Law , Nature

“What's in a kiss?
Have you ever wondered just what it is?
More perhaps than just a moment of bliss?
Tell me what's in a kiss.
What's in a dream?
Is it all the things you'd like to have been?
All the places that you haven't yet seen?
Tell me what's in a dream.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"What's in a Kiss?" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "What's in a Kiss?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouajeMalTcw (song on YouTube)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "What's in a Kiss?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-C3LsISY6Q (A 1981 live performance, with other material. On YouTube)
Song lyrics

Dreams , Kiss

“I never thought I'd see the day
when murder would become so commonplace.
Hardly a minute ever goes by
without a murder taking place. And why?
Well, for a start, the punishment's not hard:
they sentence you to life but you're out in no time.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"Talking of Murder" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Talking of Murder" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a327hRmOEes (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics

Time , Life

“From the looks you're giving me
I can tell, as well see
if I've done something you think's wrong:
no words need be conveyed.
Then again, when we embrace,
from the look that's on your face
if heaven is a place on earth
right here is where it's been.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"No Way" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "No Way" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mPUlZ4vRE (song on YouTube)

Thinking

“You imagine Pacific islands, the tropical nature of the place and the bright colour of the sands and beaches. It's all very grey and dull because of the ash that just blankets the entire land.”

Peeni Henare (1980) New Zealand politician

Tonga
Source: Peeni Henare (2022) cited in: " Tonga airport runway being cleared of ash as Australian planes ready to depart https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/20/tonga-airport-runway-being-cleared-of-ash-as-australian-planes-ready-to-depart" in The Guardian, 19 January 2022.

Imagination , Nature

“It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.”

Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Israeli psychologist

Source: As remembered by Don Redelmeir, Michael Lewis, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).

World

“As long as you have a television screen or a streamer, we are living in an era where we can connect and enjoy any content from any place around the world very easily.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "Gong Yoo Opens Up On K-content Success Across The World As 'The Silent Sea' Hits Netflix" https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/rest-of-the-world/gong-yoo-opens-up-on-k-content-success-across-the-world-as-the-silent-sea-hits-netflix.html (24 December 2021)

World

“A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.”

Connie Willis (1945) American science fiction writer

Source: Short fiction, Fire Watch (1985), The Sidon in the Mirror (p. 161)

“The Rhine is still the Rhine, the great divider... Immediately you are over the Rhine, the spirit of place has changed... It is as if the life had retreated eastwards. As if the Germanic life were slowly ebbing away from contact with western Europe, ebbing to the deserts of the east.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Source: 'A Letter from Germany', written 19 February 1924, printed in The New Statesman (13 October 1934), quoted in D. H. Lawrence, Selected Essays (1950), pp. 175-176

Life , Change

“Because physical theories typically predict numerical values, an improvement in experimental precision reduces the tolerance range and hence increases corroborability. In most psychological research, improved power of a statistical design leads to a prior probability approaching ½ of finding a significant difference in the theoretically predicted direction. Hence the corroboration yielded by "success" is very weak, and becomes weaker with increased precision. "Statistical significance" plays a logical role in psychology precisely the reverse of its role in physics. This problem is worsened by certain unhealthy tendencies prevalent among psychologists, such as a premium placed on experimental "cuteness" and a free reliance upon ad hoc explanations to avoid refutation.”

Paul E. Meehl (1920–2003) American psychologist

Source: [Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox, Philosophy of Science, 34, 2, 1967, 103–115, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/288135]

Problem , Success

“Correct breathing also performs a constant massage of the internal organs by raising them up and down, thus curing constipation when it is caused by faulty insufficient breathing (as is often the case) which holds the muscles of the abdomen in a static position. Therefore the first thing to do is to make sure that you know how to breathe from the physical standpoint, and how to control the muscle of the diaphragm. This muscle forms the dividing line between the chest and the stomach just below the ribs. Place the fingers upon the diaphragm muscle just below the ribs and under the centre breast bone. In this arched hollow lies the muscle upon which correct breathing depends. Take a slow breath, drawing the muscle upwards and inwards, following its movement with the fingers, fill the lungs with air right up to the collarbones. Then breathe out slowly whilst tucking the diaphragm still further inwards and upwards!”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XV The Essential Science of Breathing

Drawing , Dependency

“Sat for hours in front of a screen
Mouse will tell you what you are seeing
When you get home, how to relax
Another screen for you to look at
Welcome to the world of work
It's a kind of living
where you give more than you'll ever receive
Welcome to the world of work
Only place a loyal servant can be
kicked in the teeth”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"World of Work" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "World of Work" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzBK6HUpxw0 (song on YouTube)

Home , World

“There is too much attention
paid to him who shot at he
and to how he got away
but didn't quite.
Yes there's too much attention
So much so that we'll believe
he's not guilty of the crime which he's being tried
So forgive me when I tell you
I ain't got no place to go
I ain't got no one to talk to
got no one left to say hello”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"Too Much Attention" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Too Much Attention" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR47R4uWdDo (song on YouTube)

Forgiveness

“When I'm alone with you it seems all my dreams come true
It makes me feel so good I just can't help loving you
Cos you're everything I could hope for:
that's why I love you
Sometimes I tell myself this girl don't love you no more
and that some day with someone new she'll walk from your door
But if you did, my world would break in two,
that's why I love you
And any time I see your face
something very unusual takes place:
all my inhibitions disappear
now that you are here”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"That's Why I Love You" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "That's Why I Love You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpN5iej40E (song on YouTube)

Girl , World , Time , Dreams

“I have not a girl that's mine
I have not a friend
I have not got a place to live
Indeed it seems the end
But it ain't, for me
as I've got myself, which matters most
throughout the life I lead.
I have not a penny in my pocket, and if soon
I should be found just as badly broken
I won't gloom
cos it ain't, for me
as I've got myself which matters most
throughout the life I lead”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"It Ain't For Me" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "It Ain't For Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tccchTER_nY (song on YouTube)

Girl , Life

“People predict by making up stories.
People predict very little and explain everything.
People live under uncertainty whether they like it or not.
People believe they can tell the future if they work hard enough.
People accept any explanation as long as it fits the facts.
The handwriting was on the wall. It was just the ink that was invisible.
People often work hard to obtain information they already have and avoid new knowledge.
Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic Universe. In this match, surprises are expected.
Everything that has already happened must have been inevitable.
A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.
The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.
So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative
The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.
It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.”

Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Israeli psychologist

Source: Notes made by Tversky for a scientific paper, c.1972. Michael Lewis. "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).

Knowledge , Problem , Thinking , People

“I fancy I hear them talking there
In an open boat, and the speech is fair.
And the boy is learning the ways of men
From the finest man in his youthful ken.
Kings, to the youngster, cannot compare
With the gentle father who's with him there.
And the greatest mind of the human race
Not for one minute could take his place.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: All That Matters (1922), p.36 - A Boy And His Dad, stanza 2.

Boy , Learning , Youth , Way

“I believe that diversity should be a mutual gift, enriching interpersonal and social relationships, opening minds and hearts to those who are different. Yet if we place too much emphasis on what distinguishes us, then peculiarities and nationalisms inevitably resurface, with the consequence that differences become obstacles or, even worse, walls. A Christian, the word itself indicates, even before belonging to a nation, belongs to Christ, who gave his life for us.”

Luciano Suriani (1957) Vatican archbishop and diplomat

Source: Archbishop Luciano Suriani: History Calls Us To Overcome Divisions https://cordmagazine.com/interview/archbishop-luciano-suriani-history-calls-us-to-overcome-divisions/ (31 August 2020)

Heart , Christ , Life

“The dialectic between the social situation of the believer and Scripture and the traditions of the Church is the place to begin the investigation of the question, Who is Jesus Christ for us today? Social context, Scripture, and tradition operate together to enable the people of God to move actively and reflectively with Christ in the struggle of freedom.”

James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian

Source: God of the Oppressed (1975, 1997), p. 115 (1975 edition)

God , Freedom , People , Question

“People did not always love the mountains. Just a few hundred years ago the high mountains were regarded as horrible, monstrous places filling people with terror and fear. The inhabitants near them were seen as awful demons, subhumans. But this attitude got transformed into just the opposite, especially by Romantic writers and painters in the nineteenth century. Seen by the Romantics, high mountains became places of impossible beauty, where the quality of light and the expansive solitary grandeur of the high peaks opened the heart of the individual. A man climbing a mountain became the image of self-conscious intelligence pitted against the eternal indifference of the forces of nature. Compared to these forces of nature, we are nothing save for the will that moves our limbs. Only that will is truly our own.”

Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist

Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 271-272

Mountain , Intelligence , Indifference , Nature

“The mission is of God, it is not ours. We are simply the instruments of God. Within the Church, one of the characteristics of the missionary, and especially of the religious – for I myself am also a religious – is itinerancy. We are never fixed in one place, but are transferred wherever the Church needs us, wherever God sends us, which is why we must always be ready to dismantle our tent and set it up again elsewhere.”

Luiz Fernando Lisboa (1955) 21st-century Brazilian Catholic bishop

Source: Mozambique: the last three years have been “an experience of the cross” https://acninternational.org/mozambique-the-last-three-years-have-been-an-experience-of-the-cross/ (25 February 2021)

God

“We are all at one stage or another of being unfinished. We can be born with deficiencies, or incur disabilities, some of which last through life. In fact, we are never finished while death is still in front of us. When there is something that cannot be resolved or fulfilled within our present span of life, it helps to remember that our life was not something we had a right to in the first place; it is simply gift. And our present life is not the whole of it.”

Peter Cullinane (1936) Catholic bishop

Unmoored https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/08/31/unmoored/ (August 31, 2021)

Help , Life , Death

“Naturally, form has come to take precedence over color with me, though when I began painting color predominated. Slowly artistic evolution carried from color to form and while I still employ color, of course, it is the drawing which assumes the place of first importance in my pictures.”

Francis Picabia (1879–1953) French painter and writer

Quote of Picabia, in an interview in an American newspaper, 1915; as quoted by William A. Camfield, in Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times, Princeton, 1979, p.77
Picabia emphasised that line took precedence over colour in his works since 1915
1910's

Drawing , Painting , Nature , Color

“We are nothing on earth if we are not in the first place the slaves of a cause, the cause of the peoples, the cause of justice and liberty.”

Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary

Source: Letter to Roger Tayeb, December 1961, as cited in Peter Geismar, Fanon (1971), p. 185.

Justice , People

“There aren’t many prizes for second place in battle.”

Larry Niven book N-Space

Building the Mote in God’s Eye (with Jerry Pournelle) (p. 466)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“Degrowth is completely different. It is about shifting to a different kind of economy altogether – an economy that doesn't need growth in the first place. An economy that's organised around human flourishing and ecological stability, rather than around the constant accumulation of capital.”

Jason Hickel (1982) author

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)
Source: Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World, p. 207

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”

Enrique Peñalosa (1954) Colombian politician

Country , Cars

“The Leadership legends have the air of a myth concocted to justify their place in society.”

N. K. Jemisin book The Obelisk Gate

Source: The Obelisk Gate (2016), Chapter 6 “you commit to the cause” (p. 91)

“The surest way to make the world a better place for everyone is making everyone better for the world.”

- Goa

World , Way

“Your king is entirely too neutral to suit us. Anyway, there is no place for kings in the new European order.”

Boris III of Bulgaria (1894–1943) Tsar of Bulgaria

Hermann Göring, Third Reich politician, to a Bulgarian correspondent, World War: Lowlands of 1941 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772601-4,00.html, The Time, Monday, 20 January 1941

“The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell. In fact, that way of looking at things is what keeps us miserable.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)

Way

“As it is said:
Go hundreds of miles away
From places of dispute;
Don't stay for an instant
Where disturbing emotions prevail.”

Dilgo Khyentse (1910–1991) Bhutanese Buddhist Lama

The Heart of Compassion (2006)

“When buddhas look at samsara with the eyes of their omniscience, they do not see it as an enjoyable place. They are acutely aware of the sufferings of beings... and they see how senseless are the pointless, temporary goals that beings try so hard to attain.”

Dilgo Khyentse (1910–1991) Bhutanese Buddhist Lama

The Heart of Compassion (2006)

Suffering

“Ageing is an extraordinary process... If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist … I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

quoted by Aaron Hicklin in "David Bowie: An Obituary" https://www.out.com/music/2016/1/11/david-bowie-obituary

Personality , Youth , Age , Memory

“Being able to exist in a place where light and dark meet is actually not a recipe for unhappiness. It is a recipe for a deeper kind of happiness.”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Bastian, Jonathan (host). "Bittersweet: Susan Cain on the joy of sweet sorrow". KCRW.com (Los Angeles). May 21, 2022.

Light , Happiness

“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,.”

Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013) Israeli rabbi

2010

World , People

“Well, all art is therapeutic and a positive place to transmute emotions from the negative into a positive.”

Nicolas Cage (1964) American actor

"Nicolas Cage Is Ready to Be Taken Seriously Again" in Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/07/nicolas-cage-pig-interview (15 July 2021)

Art

“There are a lot more roses and tulips around today, in a lot more places, then there were before people took an interest in them. For a flower the path to world domination passes through humanity’s ever-shifting ideals of beauty.”

Michael Pollan book The Botany of Desire

Source: The Botany of Desire (2001), Chapter 2 (p. 79)

People , Flowers , World , Beauty

“... it often gets scolded and cannot find a place of its own, almost because people invariably misunderstand its true nature.”

Natalia Lozovsky medieval historian

Writing on medieval geography in: Mittman, Asa Maps and Monsters in Medieval England https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Maps_and_Monsters_in_Medieval_England/2ancAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Natalia+Lozovsky&pg=PA27&printsec=frontcover (Taylor & Francis, 2013) p.27

Nature , People

“Mary places herself between her Son and mankind in the reality of our hardships and sufferings. She places herself in the middle - she becomes a mediator not as a stranger, but in her role as true mother, aware that as such she makes present to her Son the needs of mankind.”

José Luis Mollaghan (1946) Argentinian archbishop

Argentinean bishop: Rosary helps Catholics face difficulties of life https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/21189/argentinean-bishop-rosary-helps-catholics-face-difficulties-of-life (18 October 2010)

Suffering , Reality

“I also believe that in many parts of this country, and certainly in many parts of this globe, that the opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.”

Bryan Stevenson (1959) American lawyer, social reformer and academic

We need to talk about an injustice https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice|

Justice , Country , Wealth , Thinking

“Luena, the scene of frequent military operations, was not a good place to live. But for me, it was the best environment to encounter God in mission, in communion with a new people who immediately adopted me as one of their family.”

Jesús Tirso Blanco (1957–2022) Argentinian bishop

Interview with the Salesian Bulletin https://www.infoans.org/en/sections/news/item/14769-italy-archbishop-tirso-blanco-sdb-reaches-the-garden-of-heaven (2015)

God , People , Family

“Forty million refugees with no place on this earth to call their home
One for every aimless graduate with nothing else to show for it but loans
Those of us who make a mark use someone else's blood.
Our western stain won't wash away; it won't vanish in the flood.”

Kevin Devine (1979) Songwriter and musician

" The Burning City Smoking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YmL6Fc3K4," Put Your Ghost to Rest (2006)

Home

“Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated”

Anne Applebaum (1964) journalist

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/z4AdQy3VCmgC?hl=en (October 30, 2012).

Understanding , People

“The attitude that living things are placed here for our benefit still dominates our culture, even where its underpinnings have disappeared. We now need, for purposes of scientific understanding, to find a less human-centered view of the natural world.”

Richard Dawkins book Climbing Mount Improbable

Source: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 8, “Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets” (p. 258)

World , Understanding , Nature

“People thought I was crazy (for having fashion show in various unusual places). To me, the more challenging a project, the more fun it is. What is the one place that people won't be able to do a show at? I choose that one.”

Jessica Minh Anh (1988) Vietnamese model

Jessica Minh Anh (2020) cited in: " For Jessica Minh Anh all the world's her runway https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/fashion/the-world-is-her-runway/article32032876.ece" in The Hindu, 10 July 2020.

People , Fashion

“You do not have to be privileged to find your place in the world.”

Jessica Minh Anh (1988) Vietnamese model

Jessica Minh Anh (2015) cited in: " Catwalk of the future! Top model to mix haute couture, thousands of mirrors, a 100-metre runway and DRONES... at the world's first solar-powered fashion show https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3077404/Model-mix-haute-couture-DRONES-thousands-mirrors-100-metre-runway-solar-power-plant-Spain.html" in Daily Mail, 12 May 2015.

World

“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.”

Alex Webb (photographer) (1952) American photojournalist

Source: Bubacz, Kate (June 6, 2017). "6 Photographers On What It Means To Be Close Enough" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katebubacz/get-closer. BuzzFeed.

Confidence , Secret , Waiting

“It was everything that I could do
to give you your space,
so naive to hope in your heart
I'd have a place someday.”

Marian Renta

Music lyrics, Headfirst (2021) —"Home"

Hope , Heart

“A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.”

Massimo Introvigne (1955) Italian philosopher

"Filming the Age of Kingdom: The End Times and the Movies of The Church of Almighty God" https://bitterwinter.org/end-times-and-the-movies-of-cag/

God , World , Hope

“Put workingmen in the places of the capitalists and they would have done just as the capitalists were doing. In fact, whenever workingmen did become capitalists they were commonly said to make the hardest sort of masters.”

Edward Bellamy book Equality

Equality (1897)

“I am against the idea when we, so to say, throw someone behing the bars, which is the place where they would hide and flee from responsibility. We will surely find them, but they first have to return public money.”

Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine

Source: [Янукович про корупціонерів: ховатись не будуть, - одна розмова, будуть – інша, https://www.unian.ua/politics/482166-yanukovich-pro-koruptsioneriv-hovatis-ne-budut-odna-rozmova-budut-insha.html, 2022-06-12, www.unian.ua, uk, 2011-04-11]

Money , Idea

“The fact that so few creatures can tolerate these conditions means that any animal that can, has the place to itself and so can proliferate in vast numbers.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

"The Limits of Endurance"
The Life of Birds (1998)

Animals

“That’s what this is all about: responding to basic human desires that we share for dignity, for safety, and for security. And when those basics are absent in one place, that’s when people make the desperate decision to seek them elsewhere.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, June 2022, Remarks by President Biden at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Ninth Summit of the Americas

People , Decision

“... nowhere else in the world did reality have as much effective power as in the camp, nowhere else was reality so real. In no other place did the attempt to transcend it prove so hopeless and so shoddy.”

Jean Améry (1912–1978) Austrian essayist

At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966)

Reality , World

“When God created the world, He placed sin and ignorance within satisfication of the appetite and knowledge and wisdom withing hunger. When Sahl hungered he was powerful, and whenever he ate, he became weak.”

Sahl al-Tustari (818–896) arabian Sufi, Islamic theologian

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 55

Hunger , God , Knowledge , World

“Advice can never take the place of experience. That which advice can sometimes do is to make experience more fruitful of good; to help us the better to understand the lessons of life; and when those lessons are sharp and unwelcome, to bear them with an even and unruffled mind.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19

Understanding , Help , Life

“All that is left is your scar, no doubt the least valuable of your distinguishing marks. Today you frequent nothing but prison cells, and within the foreseeable future no place at all …”

Bertolt Brecht The Threepenny Opera

Source: The Threepenny Opera

Future

“Cooperation for development has now become the major trend of our contemporary world. We have clearly witnessed that diverse forms and scope of cooperation have taken place within and among the regions thus providing a strong boost to the world economic growth.”

Bounnhang Vorachit (1937) former General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (2016-2021)

"Keynote Address by H.E. Mr. Bounnhang Vorachith Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic" https://asean.org/keynote-address-by-h-e-mr-bounnhang-vorachith-prime-minister-of-the-lao-peoples-democratic-republic-2/ (26 July 2005)

Strong , World

“I've been down this road before
I remember every tree
Every single blade of grass
Holds a special place for me
And I remember every town
And every hotel room
Every song I ever sang
On a guitar out of tune”

John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter

Song lyrics, I Remember Everything (2020)

Tree , Grass

“The disaster of one person’s relationship paradigm being based in compromise and the other person's relationship paradigm being based in compatibility, can be seen in conflicts taking place across every kind of relationship.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Personality

“What if we could make the company better? If we could change things…make it a better place to work. I mean, there are so many things we could do.”

Max Barry book Company

Holly looks at him blankly. Freddy says, “Jones…you’re still new here People suggest ways to improve the company every day. Their ideas go into the suggestion box in the cafeteria—where the cafeteria was, I mean—and they’re never heard from again, except during all-staff meetings when Senior Management picks out the most useless one and announces a cross-functional team to look into it. A year or two later, when everyone’s forgotten about it, we get an e-mail announcing the implementation of something that bears no resemblance to the initial idea and usually has the opposite effect, and in the annual reports this is used as evidence that the company listens and reacts to its workers. That’s what happens when you try to make Zephyr a better place to work.”
Q4/2: November, pp. 208-209
Company (2006)

Change

“Someone tried to tell me the other day that the only habitable place in America is California. But I just don’t understand how you could spend your life restricted to summer outfits.”

Max Barry book Company

Source: Company (2006), p. 108

Understanding , Life , Summer

“The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.”

John Berger book Ways of Seeing

Chap. 1
Ways of Seeing (1972)

Painting , Parting

“We’ll let the peasants fight for last place.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

After arriving in first place in the third episode of The Amazing Race Canada, Season 7 https://www.tv-eh.com/2019/07/16/the-amazing-race-canada-one-way-fun-day-in-edmonton/ (July 16, 2019)

Fight

“A job’s about a lot more than a paycheck, it’s about your dignity, it’s about place in the community.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

What these guys do is they care about the dignity of the worker, and I see things are really beginning to change. I really believe it. And Senator Portman, since he's not running again, I can say all the nice things about him that I want.
2022, May 2022, President Biden Delivers Remarks on Building a Better America

Communication

“The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.”

Robert Rubin book In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

"In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington" https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_an_Uncertain_World/oUz_orYBwPcC?hl=en&gbpv=0, p. 64

People

“My fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken. They have delivered us a clear victory. A convincing victory. A victory for "We the People." We have won with the most votes ever cast for a presidential ticket in the history of this nation — 74 million. I am humbled by the trust and confidence you have placed in me. I pledge to be a President who seeks not to divide, but to unify. Who doesn't see Red and Blue states, but a United States. And who will work with all my heart to win the confidence of the whole people.For that is what America is about: The people. And that is what our Administration will be about.I sought this office to restore the soul of America. To rebuild the backbone of the nation — the middle class. To make America respected around the world again and to unite us here at home. It is the honor of my lifetime that so many millions of Americans have voted for this vision. And now the work of making this vision real is the task of our time.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2020, November 2020, Victory speech as US President-elect

Home , Soul , History , Confidence

“Architecture is intrinsic to Time, Place and Man.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Time

“This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy—the rise of mediocrity into high places.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

“What means more to the life of the individual in our own place in Time than this study of the nature of human nature, the search to discover pertinent traces of hidden impulses of life, to form continually new abstractions uplifting the life he lives?”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Study , Search , Time , Nature

“Mosques are not places for mundane activities. Mosques are erected purely for the remembrance and worship of Allah.”

Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943) Indian Muslim scholar

Ashraf Ali Thānwī, Hayātul Muslimeen p.76

“It is not true that exist useless people. Exist bad people: they are harmful to mood, work, body and psyche. People who if they didn't exist, the world would be a better place.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non è vero che esistono persone inutili. Esistono persone cattive: sono dannose all'umore, al lavoro, al corpo e alla psiche. Persone che se non esistessero, il mondo sarebbe un posto migliore.
Source: prevale.net

People , World , Mood

“Grace, honour, praise, delight,
Here sojourn day and night.
Sound bodies lined
With a good mind,
Do here pursue with might
Grace, honour, praise, delight.

Here enter you, and welcome from our hearts,
All noble sparks, endowed with gallant parts.
This is the glorious place, which bravely shall
Afford wherewith to entertain you all.
Were you a thousand, here you shall not want
For anything; for what you'll ask we'll grant.
Stay here, you lively, jovial, handsome, brisk,
Gay, witty, frolic, cheerful, merry, frisk,
Spruce, jocund, courteous, furtherers of trades,
And, in a word, all worthy gentle blades.”

Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.

Night , Heart , Parting

“We were alone in the most beautiful place in the world.”

Jean Rhys book Wide Sargasso Sea

World , Beauty

“The warriors that fought for their country, and bled,
Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed;
No stone tells the place where their ashes repose,
Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes.

They died in their glory, surrounded by fame,
And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim;
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast,
And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

"The Battle of Lovell's Pond," poem first published in the Portland Gazette (November 17, 1820).

Dead , Country , Victory , Death

“(Finding your place)"At first it was my passion, but now it is my purpose. "
-Engr. Abah Sule-”

Engr.Abah Sule

Passion

“After you have settled yourself in a place as favorable as possible to the concentration of your mind upon itself, have writing materials brought to you. Put yourself in as passive, or receptive, a state of mind as you can. Forget about your genius, your talents, and the talents of everyone else. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that lead to everything. Write quickly, without any preconceived subject, fast enough so that you will not remember what you're writing and be tempted to reread what you have written. The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth that with every passing second there is a sentence unknown to our consciousness which is only crying out to be heard.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)

Literature , Cry , Forgetting , Truth

“It was not the freedom of imagination that pushed me to go beyond the boundaries of what my humanity meant. Rather it is reality itself which affirms that I am nothing less than an ordinary human being. In other words, as freely as birds fly in the sky, at one time they need reality as a place to stand on.”

Titon Rahmawan

#Imagination and reality

Imagination , Freedom , Flying , Time

“We cannot refuse destiny. We can't avoid it either. There is no place for us to hide. Whichever path you choose, he will find you.”

Titon Rahmawan

#Destiny

“Consider that if a truth is able to destroy or destabilize something, that thing was not strong, real or stable in the first place. That stability you thought you had, was a total illusion. Your world was built on quicksand.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Strong , Truth , World

“There is no better place than in the arms of the one you love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non c'è posto migliore che tra le braccia di chi ami.
Source: prevale.net

Love

“More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms that were put in place in 1933. The eugenics movement may have come to a catastrophic crescendo with the Hitler regime, but the political movement, the world-view, the ideology, and the science that aspired to breed humans like prized horses began almost 100 years earlier. More poignantly, the ideology and those legal and governmental mechanisms of a eugenic world-view inevitably lead back to the British and American counterparts that Hitler’s scientists collaborated with. Posterity must gain understanding of the players that made eugenics a respectable scientific and political movement, as Hitler’s regime was able to evade wholesale condemnation in those critical years between 1933 and 1943 precisely because eugenics had gained international acceptance. As this book will evidence, Hitler’s infamous 1933 laws mimicked those already in place in the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada.
So what is this scientific and political movement that for 100 years aspired to breed humans like dogs or horses? Eugenics is quite literally, as defined by its principal proponents, an attempt at “directing evolution” by controlling any aspect of human existence that affects human heredity. From its onset, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the man credited with the creation of the science of eugenics, knew that the cause of eugenics had to be observed with religious fervor and dedication. As the quote on the opening pages of this book illustrates, a eugenicist must “intrude, intrude, intrude.” A vigilant control over anything and everything that affects the gene pool is essential to eugenics. The policies could not allow for the individual to enjoy self-government or self-determination any more than a horse breeder can allow the animals to determine whom to breed with. One simply cannot breed humans like horses without imbuing the state with the level of control a farmer has over its livestock, not only controlling procreation, but also the diet, access to medical services, and living conditions.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: H.H. LAUGHLIN: American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator.

Books , World , Law , Dogs

“Much of the process of socialization that took place in the past and that takes place today, is a process of using the control tactic of shaming so as to create the desired behavior that we want.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Past , Behavior

“Any entertainment professional, whenever he works without earning money, will condemn himself to do so forever. Anyone will think that his work has no value. His art and professionalism must be protected, appreciated and remunerated, in every place in the world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Qualsiasi professionista dello spettacolo, ogni volta che lavora senza guadagnare soldi, si condannerà a farlo per sempre. Chiunque penserà che il suo lavoro non abbia alcun valore. La sua arte deve essere tutelata, apprezzata e remunerata, in ogni posto del mondo.
Source: prevale.net

Money , World , Art , Thinking

“There is nothing wrong with being beautiful. It is a basic right for a woman to look like that. It's just that they must know how to place their dignity and self-respect.”

Titon Rahmawan

Beauty

“Opinions and criticism can influence and even make a difference when delivered in a good way and at the right time. He just needs to know how to put himself and others in his place.”

Titon Rahmawan

Time , Way

“The person envious of your abilities feels continuous resentment toward you and, inevitably, grudge towards your existence. His ideal place is far away from you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La persona invidiosa delle tue capacità prova un continuo risentimento nei tuoi confronti e, inevitabilmente, astio verso la tua esistenza. Il suo posto ideale è lontano da te.
Source: prevale.net

Personality , Feeling

“The ego tends to put itself above everything that is philosophically corrupt and destructive. Can we accept the idea that the ego must accept the consequences of what it has done? It must take responsibility for the motive behind it. If that motive is virtue and goodness, then we have placed the ego in the right proportion. But on the contrary, if it denies the human traits that collectively uphold moral ethics, law, justice and honesty, then it will easily fall into the hole that it has dug for itself.”

Titon Rahmawan

Motivation , Idea , Justice , Law

“The fact that we have forgotten history is that we have placed the ego as the basis for justifying the logic of thinking based on the dominance of gender, skin color and especially power. Human collective history tends to be absurd, senseless and even insane. We have mistreated our fellow beings, ignored humanity and peace, destroyed the earth and damaged the environment, created wars, nuclear bombs and weapons of mass destruction in the name of personal ego.”

Titon Rahmawan

History , Personality , Thinking , War

“Love needs no explanation, of course. There's nothing to explain. About love or longing. The thoughts that accompany our feelings. It's been there for a long time. Ever since it first came to say hello and then declared itself.

It's not something strange, not easily understood. It's like the togetherness we share today. Sit and chat with friends. Enjoying time and joking. Playing old songs, from The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro and Elvis Presley.

We're not too old to go back to those days. Revisiting the stories of the past. Talking about paintings from Sudjojono or Affandi to Dede Eri Supria and Lucia Hartini. Arguing who is greater; Chairil, Sapardi or Sutardji?

We put aside the issues of political depravity and the news of leadership succession that is not what the public expects. Let time resolve everything. Better to talk about climate change, which is sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny. Or the heat that does not hesitate to burn your head until it reaches 37° while in other places heavy rains cause floods everywhere. We will never know, until the wind takes us back from the past.”

Titon Rahmawan

Painting , Love , Feeling , Change

“Only a fool loves someone because of his looks, or his beauty, or his wealth, simply because he places happiness in a superficial understanding of human thoughts and feelings that is ultimately misleading.”

Titon Rahmawan

Happiness , Understanding , Wealth , Beauty

“We have to place ourselves in the right environment that helps us and allows us to become the greatest versions of ourselves.”

Ralph Smart

Help

“To start loving yourself, go to the place you find your greatest power.”

Ralph Smart

Love

“Water in general is very special because it holds memory. Whenever I go anywhere, I make it a point to drink the water there. The reason being that water holds an energetic vibration and a big part of that specific vibration is information. Drinking the water in a place is like downloading that vibration and that information… Information about the land and everything associated with it. It connects you immediately to where you are and to what happened there and to all those things that it encountered before you.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Drink , Water , Memory , Parting

“Never place limits on your dream, it doesn't need them.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non ponete mai limiti al vostro sogno, non ne ha bisogno.
Source: prevale.net

Dreams

“Music allows to find their place in the world and the opportunity to communicate fragility, art, life, sensations and emotions that are often transmitted through the melodies of sound.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La musica permette di trovare un posto nel mondo e l'opportunità di comunicare fragilità, arte, vita, sensazioni ed emozioni che si trasmettono attraverso le melodie del suono.
Source: prevale.net

Communication , Music , Art , World

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