Place Quotes

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

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.

First of all, I think the situation today is different. We're in a different place than we were in '93, '94.

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

The White House is a strange place.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn't tell her but because I'd done it in the first place.

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.