- Nov 07, 2020
Place Quotes
Where you land shapes who you become.
These quotes look at place from more than one angle - the town that never quite feels like "home-home," the city that opens doors for a career, and the place you land after years of searching. Some reflect on where opportunity struck; others just accept a city for what it gave them. Read on for more perspective in our Great Quotes collection.
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- Emergency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
- Break
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020