Quotes with place

Quotes 481 till 500 of 738.

  • Sir Francis Drake The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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  • Ben Stein The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Carson Grant The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
    Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art, Denises Interviews and Media News, p.1
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Jackson The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Billy Corgan The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Anaxagoras The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
    Anaxagoras
    Greek philosopher (500 - 428)
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  • Arthur Brisbane The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work!
    Arthur Brisbane
    American newspaper editor (1864 - 1936)
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  • Richard W. Livingston The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
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  • Orson Welles The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Angelina Grimké The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Henry Miller The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Andrew Marvell The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Martin Luther King The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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