Place Quotes

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.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

I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.