Place Quotes

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.