Place Quotes

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

There's place and means for every man alive.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.