Top 1200 Great Place Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected. That's part of the reason why people who like it tend to love it.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

When you come to a place like Old Trafford, you have to defend, and the system is in place for perfectly good reasons.

I started skiing when I was five years old. I grew up on a little 300-foot mountain called Perfect North Slopes. It wasn't a great destination in the world, but it was a good enough place to learn how to do tricks.

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

I used to go from place to place by tram. A shilling would take you all around London and the suburbs.

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

My relationship to images is always in flux... Photos I think are great can turn out to be not so interesting five years later, and vice versa. I've learned there's no thing as a bad photo - every one is a personal record of a time and place.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

There's nothing wrong with being an innovator, but how do you innovate? Are you just destroying the place, or are you protecting the place?

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the dominating feeling. It gets to be rather a fever... At age 60, when asked about his feelings on discovering the Dirac equation.

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Focus on creating really good music and a great live show before doing anything else. If you have these two things in place, the other aspects of the business are much easier and almost take care of themselves.

I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.

I've lived all over London, as I like moving from place to place.

It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.

Beijing is a place where you can go and try on all kinds of hats. It's also a place where you can hide really easily.

The big thing is, everybody says it's being in the right place at the right time. But it's more than that, it's being in the right place all the time. Because if I make 20 runs to the near post and each time I lose my defender, and 19 times the ball goes over my head or behind me - then one time I'm three yards out, the ball comes to the right place and I tap it in - then people say, right place, right time. And I was there *all* the time.

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

I'm kind of a gypsy, so I love living out of a suitcase and going from place to place meeting people.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.

A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery of the forest.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.

I think the world is becoming a place where younger and younger people can do great things, and I just hope I can inspire other young people to do the same.

There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.

We want to be a place where, and when there's no place else, you can turn us on and know that He's there, He cares, and He's going to do something about it.

If I could pick one place in the world to do one show, this would be it. State Farm Center is my favorite place.

Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

It's a place I'll always remember, and I have nothing bad to say about New England. I love that place.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Celtic is the right place: the history, the fans - it's a place I want to score more goals.

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.

Conservative merchandise tends to aim at a point from a place of humor and exuberance, from Trumpy Bear to the 'Make American Great Again' hats to my own bestselling blank book 'Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide.'

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.