#place

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ↗

— Willa Cather

#even #hard #hard place #incessantly #leave

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#came #carry #could #even #every

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#bridge #called #defend #just #left

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' ↗

— James Chanos

#australia #china #clearly #clients #complacency

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#easily #frets #gravitation #his #into

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#clown #far #higher #higher plane #i

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all). ↗

— Don Cheadle

#amount #because #favorite #film #i

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. ↗

— John Cheever

#always #backs #i #i always #i remember

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#as far as #be the first #being #come #create