Place And Time Quotes - Page 2

• It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

  Christopher Paolini

  Dream, Illusion, Eragon

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.507, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

  Dana Gioia

  Identity, Speak, Particular

  "My California: Journeys by Great Writers". Book edited by Donna Wares, 1999.

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Home, Mirrors

  Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Visitor”, p.8, Counterpoint

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• When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.

  Tom Morello

  Real, Book, Names

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

  Jennifer Stone

  Country, Children, Artist

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• If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

  T. S. Eliot

  Religious, Example, Found

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.396, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
  When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.
  Where liberty dwells there is my country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Giving Up, Believe

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• I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

  Isabel Allende

  Stories, Sense Of Place, Rooted

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Kings, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

  Michael Helm

  Sanity, Paranoia, Circumstances

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you look at the Olympic graphics for Mexico or Los Angeles, those programs don't look contemporary by today's eyes but they really look like they are of their place and time.

  Michael Bierut

  Eye, Looks, Mexico

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

  Richard Aldington

  Genius, Mystery, Potency

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• The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

  R. D. Laing

  Groups, May, Dynamics

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• For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.

  Russell Shorto

  Real, Thinking, Flames

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• I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Writing, Careers, Isolated

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• With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

  Gay Talese

  Moving, Character, Quality

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

  Ben Fountain

  Taken, Thinking, Car

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• I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.

  Lawren Harris

  Lonely, Art, Future

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, - and so, boys, go, and God bless you!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Prayer, Giving Up, Mean

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Insperational, Proactive

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• My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mother, Book, Avid

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• Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

  Zeena Schreck

  Race, Doe, Next

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• The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

  Rolf Potts

  Long, People, Trends

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

  Dave Eggers

  Fall, Ambition, Luxury

  "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story". Book by Dave Eggers, 2000.

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• Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

  Rachel Nichols

  Book, Reading, Opportunity

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