Place Quotes - page 12

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. (Dave Barry)
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice. View quote
Jack Osbourne
As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine. View quote
Jack Osbourne
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. View quote
Richard Stallman
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. View quote
Leonhard Euler
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations. View quote
Winston Churchill
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. (Joseph Conrad)
The descent to Hades is the same from every place. View quote
Anaxagoras
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. View quote
René Descartes
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. View quote
Brian Kernighan
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture. View quote
Alan Kay
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. View quote
Eric Schmidt
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. View quote
Milan Kundera
...the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. View quote
John Burroughs
Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place. (Colum McCann)
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers. View quote
John Ralston Saul
I have no place left to live but in my own heart. View quote
Anne Enright
Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated. View quote
Anne Applebaum
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. View quote
Ann Patchett