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Places Quotes (page 136)

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day. Bertrand Russell
In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales. Of old men on winter evenings. T. S. Eliot
I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death... George S. Patton
Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember. Alice Hoffman
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power,... Boris Pasternak
I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college. David Sedaris
they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall. yet I swear I see my reflection, some place high above this wall..... and someday I shall be released. Bob Dylan
Maya Angelou quote: "No one can take the place of a friend, no one."
No one can take the place of a friend, no one. Maya Angelou
Jeanette Winterson quote: "A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor."
A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor. Jeanette Winterson
I was famously in love with a woman who had no time to spare, not even a breath, for she dwelled in a place beyond time or the reach of anyone’s Rolodex, her every breath measured out of pressurized tanks. Jonathan Lethem
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way. Anne Lamott
What's madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned against a sweating wall, that place among the rocks--is it a cave, or winding path? The edge is what I have. Theodore Roethke
Richard Adams quote: "It's the place that worries you," said Hazel. "I don't like it..."
It's the place that worries you," said Hazel. "I don't like it myself, but it won't go on forever. Richard Adams

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