Places Quotes

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

John Dewey

The web eliminates all hiding places.

Jim Povec

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

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

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Jason Berg

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

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

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

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

Henry Kissinge

Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.

Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

Ancient Egyptian Blessing

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

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)

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

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

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

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante Alighieri

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Latin Prove

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

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Jules Renard

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

Henny Youngman

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

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Alighieri Dante

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

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

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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 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

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

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 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

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