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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People, India, World

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• The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet taken place in the world, the ultimate word of the world and about the world has not yet been spoken, the world is open and free, everything is still in the future and will always be in the future

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  Taken, Catharsis, World

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• Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

  Tracy Kidder

  Giving, House, Gone

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• There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.

  Will Rogers

  Character, Interesting, World

  Will Rogers (1982). “Writings”

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• You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them.

  Tobias Wolff

  Struggle, Boys, Depth

  Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.15, Vintage

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• I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, World, Passive

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• Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

  Justin Simien

  Identity, World, Sometimes

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be.  If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be.  I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there.  It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

  Alice Walker

  Evil, Needs, Television

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• There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

  Harvey Mackay

  World, Care, Take Care

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Cities, World

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• The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Home, Unique

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• The only thing that really differentiates Texas from any other place in the world is the proclivity of its people to urinate outdoors and to attach a certain amount of importance to this popular pastime.

  Kinky Friedman

  Texas, People, World

  Kinky Friedman (2001). “The Mile High Club”, Simon and Schuster

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• With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

  John Smith

  Country, World, Causes

  John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

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• When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Winning, Escaping

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• We were in the middle of a sandbar in the middle of the ocean with no one around, and still someone was following me from New York, and was hiding in some bushes like a mile away with a long lens, so he still got pictures. It was really an eye opener to how you really have to be careful about being followed everywhere. I was trying to go to the most remote place in the world, I was out on a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, and they still found me. It was definitely a very new experience.

  Ronda Rousey

  New York, Ocean, Eye

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Crazy, Giving, Albums

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