Places Quotes (page 91)

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• water
• humanity
• inventiveness

Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. Tom Robbins

• reality
• continuously
• precisely

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard. Julio Cortazar

• fitness
• slides
• place

so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit. Jodi Picoult

• busy
• universe
• design

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition. Carl Sagan

• time
• real
• space

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. Orhan Pamuk

• energy
• may
• nature

The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know. Deepak Chopra

• love
• fear
• wellness

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear Stephen King

• time
• god
• great

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God. Leo Tolstoy

• him
• words
• washing

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young. David Brin

• courage
• macbeth
• fail

Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. William Shakespeare

• liberties
• placing
• liberty

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty Benjamin Franklin

• hell
• joy
• angel

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise". Stephen Fry

• purpose
• effort
• failure

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter... Paul Auster

• happy
• little
• happy place

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. E. L. Konigsburg

• love
• book
• magnificent

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. Sholem Asch