Places Quotes - Page 2

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Lord lead us to the right places.

Never deviate off the path that society has set for you. Otherwise you may find yourself in a place that you like.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.

My novels are set in a global space and pace. However, I have never visited most of the places. I wrote my first book in London but the story took the reader to places in Mexico, Denmark and Russia, and carefully avoided London. I access these global locations with my feet planted in front of my computer. I will use my internet connection to carefully enter the streets of a foreign city and find out how long it will take my main character to get from the airport to the city center – and if there are any shortcuts on the way. I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book.

The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works

Always take a picture for everywhere you go; if you don't, then all you just lost was the precious memories and moments

Do not go to my grave. Mary knows, I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people’s lips.Do not go to my old school. Do not go to my old house —I am not in any of those places. Look for me in your hearts and greet me there.

It is only with the heart that one can see, hear and feel clearly. Think of an image, music or movie that moves you. Things that we truly love touch our heart before our head analyze them away. Once we think we understand them, they disappear... It is because simple things in life are invisible, inaudible and insensible to an analytical mind and an undiscerning heart. Let your heart hear the music -- be moved by images, people and places... for that makes you more alive than others.

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.

The light is shinning in every dark place.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

I think no matter where you go, you'll be happy as long as you know why you're there.

Beauty salons, like churches, are places where people tend to unburden themselves and bare their souls.

The person who knows his calling will find opportunities everywhere

The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. “The Hammer” stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart.

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.

We must arise and build the nation.

Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog ain't a bad choice. It's not quite water and it's not quite land - it's an in-between place.

It is good people who make good places.

Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.

...there’s no magic in places. Only people, and precious little of that; less and less the older you get.

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.

If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?