Place Quotes

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

True change takes place in the imagination.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

The bandstand is a sacred place.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.