Place Quotes - page 3

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. View quote
Havelock Ellis
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. View quote
Pablo Picasso
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. View quote
Mark Twain
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect, and is the work of a most wise Creator, nothing whatsoever takes place in the universe in which some relation of maximum and minimum does not appear. View quote
Leonhard Euler
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. View quote
Nelson Mandela
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. View quote
Milan Kundera
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Each moment is a place you've never been. View quote
Mark Strand
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. (Roger Caras)
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. quoted by Og Mandino. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. View quote
Michael Pollan
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party. View quote
Franz von Papen
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. View quote
Gore Vidal
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive. (Robert Frost)
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. View quote
Ben Kingsley
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. View quote
Margaret Mead
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. View quote
Margaret Mead
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. View quote
Washington Irving