Quotes with place

Quotes 581 till 600 of 738.

  • G. C. Lichtenberg There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bob Barr There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief...
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Napoleon There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Chief Seattle There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Thornton T. Munger There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Vince Lombardi There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Toni Morrison There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Shashi Tharoor There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ben Kingsley There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • David Viscott There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • Arleigh Burke There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
    Arleigh Burke
    American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Adam Osborne There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Bill Conti There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
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  • Buzz Aldrin There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Albert Camus There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • David Hume They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos’d
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bobby Fischer They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.
    Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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