Places In The World Quotes

• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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  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

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  Walt Disney

  Death, Dream, Inspiration

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• There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

  George Carlin

  Two, World, Unschooling

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.

  Bear Bryant

  Team, Lsu, World

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• If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Meaning Of Life, World, Way

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Australia, World

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• Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

  Trevor Noah

  Comedian, World, Comedy

  Source: variety.com

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• The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  World, Fairy Tale, Tales

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Light, Hands

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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• London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

  Renzo Piano

  Design, World, London

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• His lips pressed against her forehead and she felt him smile against her skin. "Believe me...the only place in the world I want to be is wherever you are." -Grant Morgan

  Lisa Kleypas

  Believe, Skins, World

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• Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Two, Collaboration

  Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.460, Macmillan

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• I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

  Orson Welles

  Decision, Cameras, Actors

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Graduation, Confidence

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

  Maria Sharapova

  World, Lockers, Rooms

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• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Energy, Vortex, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Order, Differences

  Bell Hooks (1996). “Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

  Dean Kamen

  Jobs, Kings, Winning

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Home, Night, Journey

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.73, Tachyon Publications

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• Everybody is corrupted by hotel rooms. You can't help it. It's the only place in the world where you walk in and the first think you do is steal everything before you take your coat off.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.

  Ann Brashares

  Missing, World, Enough

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jun 23, 2012

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• It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Nerves, World

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• We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

  Dick Cheney

  Business, America, World

  Vice presidential debate between Vice President Cheney and Sen. John Edwards, www.washingtonpost.com. October 5, 2004.

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