Place Quotes - page 7

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing. (Ed Harris)
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. View quote
Anacreon
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. View quote
Bob Edwards
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean. View quote
Sylvia Earle
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place. View quote
Michael Pollan
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A place for everything, and everything in its place. View quote
Samuel Smiles
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. (Robert A. Heinlein)
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. View quote
William James
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. View quote
Elizabeth Berkley
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry ... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style. View quote
Derek Walcott
I am the family face Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. View quote
Thomas Hardy
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. (Frédéric Bastiat)
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. View quote
Alfred Marshall
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. View quote
Norman Cousins
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. View quote
Angelina Jolie
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. View quote
M. H. Abrams