Where Quotes

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.

There is not love where there is no will.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.