Places Quotes
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.Jules Renard
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
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
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
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.E. Joseph Crossman
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.Red Skelton
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 hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.Alighieri Dante
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
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Hemingway
God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.Ancient Egyptian Blessing
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.Latin Prove
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.Henny Youngman
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
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)
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
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 at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
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
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
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
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
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.Dante Alighieri
Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care?Lemuel W. H. Ranie
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 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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.Henry Kissinge
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.John Dewey
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
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
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
