Places To Live Quotes - Page 2

• To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

  Fela Kuti

  Spiritual, Understanding, Church

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• No money, no place to live – I’ve been in more dangerous situations than other people.

  Lana Del Rey

  Dangerous Situations, People, No Money

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• There’s just one place to live – the impossible.

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Impossible, Just One

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• We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live.

  Pope John Paul II

  Respect, Responsibility, Rights

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• What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never move it again. That's like buying a Sony Walkman, and nailing it to your hi-fi.

  Nick Hancock

  Moving, Home, Parks

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• Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Letter to Arthur Greeves on December 29, 1935. "They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963)". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 477, 1979.

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• Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..." Jem: "Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we can still catch syphilis." "Or demon pox," Will suggested cheerfully, trying the door under the stairs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Doors, Two

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• Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world.

  Jerry Lawler

  Country, Australia, Facts

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• This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

  Gary Johnson

  Country, Real, Marijuana

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• Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

  Erwin McManus

  Home, People, Community

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Art, World

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• Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business.

  Narendra Modi

  Growth, Gujarat, Rapids

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• Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Opportunity, Homeless, Program

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• Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

  Rumi

  Love, Memories, Night

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• On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

  Eric Burdon

  Memorial Day, Men, World

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• Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

  Cathleen Falsani

  People, Grace, Bigger

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.81, Harper Collins

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• Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.

  Jeff Stelling

  Britain, Behinds, Middlesbrough

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• I'll never forget my worst business decision. I bought a Nissan Pathfinder with my first signing bonus. I didn't even have a place to live, but I bought a car. Not a smart move but, believe me, I learned from that mistake.

  Terry Crews

  Mistake, Smart, Believe

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cities, Healthy, London

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• Everyone—all of us, every last person on God’s earth—deserves decent shelter. It speaks to the most basic of human needs—our home—the soil from which all of us, every last person, either blossom or wither. We each have need of food, clothing, education, medical care, and companionship; but first, we must have a place to live and grow.

  Millard Fuller

  Home, Needs, Earth

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• The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

  Walter Lippmann

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

  David Attenborough

  Rotten, Finland

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• It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

  Frank Borman

  Lonely, Clouds, Doe

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

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• Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

  Dave Heineman

  Giving, Quality, Wonderful

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• In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

  Clement Freud

  Food, World, Golden

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