Quotes of Place - somelinesforyou

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ”

- Viktor E. Frankl

“ If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ”

- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

“ We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you. ”

- Jeff Warner

“ The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ”

- Ivy Baker Priest

“ The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ What we call real estate — the solid ground to build a house on — is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ”

- Vidal Sassoon

“ The middle of the road is where the white line is — and that's the worst place to drive. ”

- Robert Frost

“ We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ I've been very involved with the creation of the site. I think it's going to be very exciting, very up-to-date. ”

- Alex Rodriguez

“ You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I put a lot of emphasis on children's issues. Children are many times ignored because they don't vote, and they don't have lobby groups. ”

- Mike DeWine

“ War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to "make" your luck by being always prepared. ”

- Michael Korda

“ If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. ”

- Rupert Brooke
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