#places

Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#change

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world ↗

— Ron Rash

#people #places #tragedy #violence #death

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#going #like #louis #places #south

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. ↗

— Jules Renard

#completely #entire #moments #places #sees

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#god #harmony #life #lives #our

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#heart #his #hopes #net #places

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place. ↗

— Tom Seaver

#league #only #place #places #two

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back. ↗

— Junior Seau

#because #brothers #dad #giving #giving back

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#because #dangerous #exhausted #falls #find

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy. ↗

— George Sidney

#happy #i #know #live #lived