Where Quotes

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

Where's your will to be weird?

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.