Place Quotes

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.