Place And Time Quotes

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

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• Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, History, Eras

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

  Blake Morrison

  Believe, Book, Giving

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• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Secret Places, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

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• The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

  Fred Sandback

  Identity, Lines, Particular

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• The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Validation, Rejection, Doe

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• Everything has a place and time.

  Kabir Bedi

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• Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.

  Lin Yutang

  Mistake, Men, Laughing

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.

  Errol Morris

  Moving, Taken, World

  Source: collider.com

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• "Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

  Janet Morris

  Dream, Home, Suffering

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• Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

  Ann Beattie

  Falling In Love, Were Meant To Be, Rooted

  Interview with Neila C. Seshachari, www.weber.edu. December 28, 1989.

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• Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Book, People, Suits

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.14, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Inspirational, Friendship, Cutting

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• For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.

  Audre Lorde

  Real, Games, Differences

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• He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Eye, Angel

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 95 (on Milton)

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• Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

  Michael Caine

  Communication, Should, Bursting

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• And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

  Connie Willis

  Writing, London, Imaginary

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• So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

  Theodore Roethke

  Waiting, Dying, Longing

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.232, Anchor

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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. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Silly, Home

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• There are 7 billion people on the planet. Pretty much everyone is doing sex. It's not like you need to order the "baby-starter kit" on Amazon. Instincts will come to you at the weirdest places and times.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Baby, Sex, Order

  Source: www.elle.com

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• [T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Strong, Lying, Struggle

  Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr

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