Place Quotes

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.