When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes.
C.S. Lewis

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
Henry Miller

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
Albert Camus

You alone are Perfectly Pure, O True Lord; all other places are filled with filth.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Plato

But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; / So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; / And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Bible

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.
Robert Louis Stevenson

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you – you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences – like rags and shreds of your very life.
Katherine Mansfield

Laugh a lot, and when you’re older, all your wrinkles will be in the right places.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
Alec Waugh

A dog knows the places he is thrown food.
African Proverb

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
E.B. White

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Truman Capote

California’s a wonderful place to live – if you happen to be an orange.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Mark Twain

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.
Hinton R. Helper

I… wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.
James Agate

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan – that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
Le Corbusier

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.
Harry Truman

It isn’t like the rest of the country – it is like a nation itself – more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
John Steinbeck

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minute its hot and the next minute its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Anita Loos

I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified.
Anita Weiss

Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato.
Jason Love

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
William Loyn Phelps

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
Michael Ventre

[T]his is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something.

New York, the nation’s thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley

The Divine Will, operating through the force of love, does all this. For example, though there are thousands gathered here, absolute silence prevails. Under what compulsion? Only the compulsion of love. In other places, where a hundred people collect, a hundred and fifty constables are present to keep them quiet.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
Andy Warhol

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.
Ashley Montagu

This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was.
Quentin Crisp

There’s no place like home, after the other places close.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles.
Neil Simon

California is a queer place – in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific…. It’s sort of crazy-sensible. Just the moment: hardly as far ahead as carpe diem.
D.H. Lawrence

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
Phil Ochs

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.
Peace Pilgrim

I’ve been things and seen places.
Mae West

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
J.B. Priestley

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain

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

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

I’ve been things and seen places.
Mae West

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.
Richard Bach

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Ansel Adams

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.
Jimmy Buffett

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser

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

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
Robert Green Ingersoll

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.
Dick Gregory

I’ve lived places these guys can’t defecate in.
Mike Tyson

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
John Wesley

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain

There is no place like home after the other places close.
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir