Place Quotes - page 5

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. (Robert M. Pirsig)
The future is no place to place your better days. View quote
Dave Matthews
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
College isn't the place to go for ideas. View quote
Helen Keller
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. View quote
John Steinbeck
Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages. View quote
John Steinbeck
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. View quote
William Butler Yeats
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. View quote
Edward de Bono
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. (Denis Diderot)
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. View quote
Denis Diderot
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything. View quote
Steve Wozniak
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. View quote
Evan Esar
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. View quote
Nelson Algren
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. View quote
Irving Kristol
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. View quote
Richard Russo
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! (Jim Rohn)
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. View quote
Dave Barry
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Old age is no place for sissies. View quote
Bette Davis
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. View quote
Mark Twain