Place Quotes

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

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.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.

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.