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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about love, happiness

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about opinion, stores

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Quote by Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland about sex, love, people, contentment

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

Quote by Edward Fitzgerald about god, miracle, woman, faith, contentment

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

Quote by Cecil Frank Powell about opinion, honour, worry

I'd like to be more involved in making the world a better place.

Quote by Madonna about world

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Quote by Brian Aldiss about civilization, man

We do not own this place, we are just passengers.

Quote by Robert Redford about world

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Quote by Mary Renault about destiny, dark

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Quote by André Breton about wish, state, love

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Quote by Harold Pinter about death

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Quote by Italo Calvino about opinion, ideal

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Quote by Jonathan Swift about opinion

The day begins to droop, Its course is done: But nothing tells the place Of the setting sun.

RQuote by Robert Bridges about poetry, sun, nothing, day

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

Quote by John Milton about mind, hell

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

Quote by Sandra Cisneros about opinion, privacy, limits, writers, self-control, work

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Quote by Thomas Hardy about woman

It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a...

Quote by E. J. Pratt about poetry, night, woman, face

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Quote by James Abram Garfield about opinion, contentment

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old...

Quote by Eugene Wigner about physics, trains, problems, old, olderness, nature