#place

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. ↗

— Les Brown

#after #amaze #determination #gifts #go

Solitude is the place of purification. ↗

— Martin Buber

#solitude

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#dry #i #inside #live #myself

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#human mind #known #mind #original #outlet

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#place #sadness #sentimentality

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #being #black #did #difficult

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#men #more #occasions #seldom #supreme

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#floyd #operas #permanent #place #repertoire