Place Quotes

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.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

I've finally gotten to a place where I can say, 'You know what? You didn't think I could do it, people.' But I did it.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.

I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.