Place Quotes

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

A first love always occupies a special place.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.

In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.