Places Quotes
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all - Ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.Tyron Edwards
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.William James
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.Ernest Dimnet
This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 9 11. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home.Dick Cheney, KCI Expo Center, June 1 2004
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.Robert Green Ingersoll
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.Henny Youngman
The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.Alan Ashley - Pitt
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
The web eliminates all hiding places.Jim Povec
The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.Lao Tzu
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.Ancient Egyptian Blessing
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.Georges Pomidou
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, ... to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.Ernest Hemingway
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.Latin Prove
Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.Henry Kissinge
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.Frank Herbert, Dune
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10, 000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?Benjamin Franklin
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.Lao Tzu
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.Red Skelton
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.Erica Jong
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.Alan Ashley - Pitt
The best man is like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.Jules Renard
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.John Dewey
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.E. Joseph Crossman
Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care?Lemuel W. H. Ranie
