Place Quotes - page 4

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. (Samuel Johnson)
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. View quote
William S. Burroughs
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. View quote
Maya Angelou
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. View quote
Steven Wright
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. View quote
Iris Murdoch
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. View quote
Colette
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. (Zora Neale Hurston)
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together! View quote
Robert Browning
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. View quote
Beverly Sills
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. View quote
Margaret Drabble
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. View quote
Herodotus
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. View quote
Dean Koontz
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
America... It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. (Thomas Wolfe)
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. View quote
William Cowper
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. View quote
Booker T. Washington
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. View quote
Alexander Smith