Quotes of: Wonderful-place Keyword

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.

Parade's End

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well," the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...

Paved with Good Intentions

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.

Philosophical Investigations

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

The Pieces We Keep

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Parallel Lives

The world may be about to end, but if it's going to end, we'll goddamn well give it our best shot first. And this is the place to do it.

Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol 1: Parerga

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

The Prize

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times.

The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

The Piano Teacher

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all." - Matthew Farrell

Paradise/Tender Triumph

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The Phantom Tollbooth

You are the know place to which the unknown is always leading me back." "I possess nothing worthy to give you." "There's only me." ~ quotes from poetry that Angelo feels match him and Zach

Paris A to Z

The record store was a place of escape. It was a library and a clubhouse” - Cameron Crowe quoted

Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again

It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.

Royal Assassin

A brick could be used in place of B. Rick, who is sorry he couldn’t make it to this sentence. But he assured me if this thought has a third sentence, he’ll definitely show up for it.  

Rick Bet Blank

If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

The River of Winged Dreams