Quotes of: Hard-place Keyword

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.

Saturday's Child

Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not invention.

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

No Longer at Ease

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.

Not Tonight : My Worth Is Far Above Rubies

He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details were everywhere.

Necromancing the Stone

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

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.

Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change

We're all looking for a peaceful and safe place, but maybe there is no such place. But we keep going no matter what's waiting for us down the road. We don't stop living.

Mars, Volume 15

Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters. Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

What man can be a real man...if he does not try and help make the world a better place!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

Swann's Way

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them mo...

The Subjection of Women

The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.

Orthodoxy

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

A Place on Earth

He told m the best advice he could ever give me is all in this book. We need God's constant help and blessings. Both are in the pages of the Bible.

A Place in His Heart

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

Peter Pan

I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.

A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Page

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.

Paper Towns

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.

A Place Like This