Places In The World Quotes - Page 8

• There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Philosophy, Mind, World

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.16, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

  Florence King

  World, Next, Best Place

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• Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

  Cyril Connolly

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Kings, World, Auras

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• Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Rights, Brain

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

  Albert Hadley

  Real, Design, Together

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• As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense.

  Conrad Hilton

  Religious, Color, World

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• It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Beautiful, Wise, Witty

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Beautiful, Math

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

  Harvey Mackay

  Educational, World, Care

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Apr 18, 2011

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• Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world

  Rennie Ellis

  Photography, Would Be, Add

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• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Math, Apology

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world. It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it's a lot of hard work, too, but it's a lot of fun at the same time.

  Heidi Klum

  Positive, Jobs, Fun

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• I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  World, Boring, Moderation

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• There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Sea, Cities

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.418, Northwestern University Press

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• Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

  Beth Moore

  Insecure, Men, Self

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• Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

  Frances Mayes

  Venice, Magic, World

  "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.

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• The expression of our truth is an ancient action through which we actually discover our place in the world; the true shape of our being and our individuality. It is how we create firm boundaries and allow others to know who we are and what we value.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Expression, Individuality

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• Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

  Augustine Birrell

  Happiness, Book, Men

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• When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.

  Galen Rowell

  Climbing, Challenges, Mountain

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• And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

  John Elder Robison

  World, Welcome, Misfits

  John Elder Robison (2010). “Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's”, p.96, Random House

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• Each of us has his place in the world. If we cannot serve in one way, there is always another. If we do what we are able, a door always opens to something else.

  Marguerite de Angeli

  Doors, World, Able

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• I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

  August Wilson

  Starting Over, Finding Yourself, World

  August Wilson (1988). “Joe Turner's Come and Gone”

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• Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

  Leonhard Euler

  World, Minimum, Maximum

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• In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

  Debbie Allen

  World, Language, Praying

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