Place Quotes - page 11

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. (Frances Wright)
One need not be a chamber to be haunted One need not be a house The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. View quote
Denis Diderot
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. View quote
William Wordsworth
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. View quote
William Wordsworth
I like to think a thought and then I like to follow it, like a little seed, for a long time and see where that growth leads me. Sometimes it leads me to an entirely different place from where it started and that gives me joy. View quote
Yiyun Li
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. View quote
Jared Leto
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. (Barbara De Angelis)
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. View quote
Sarah Dessen
So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain. View quote
Isaac Watts
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things - the job, the house, the this, the that - do not really fill the place inside. View quote
Robertson Davies
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. View quote
Vince Lombardi
My philosophy is that not only you are responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is. (Anton Chekhov)
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. View quote
Jim Rohn
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. View quote
Allen Ginsberg