#place

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ↗

— Mark Twain

#boards #first #god #idiots #made

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#corner #god #my soul #place #soul

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music. ↗

— Keith Urban

#country #country music #genuine #heart #i

You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#america #assuming #because #buy #could

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ↗

— Voltaire

#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#biggest #perhaps #place #universe

I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#changed #chase #dream #energy #enough

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that. ↗

— David Wain

#great #just #more #much #place

‎The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just another part of it. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#faeries #fairies #fay #small-town #the-replacement

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. ↗

— Simone Weil

#been #certain #class #comes #life