Where Quotes

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

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.